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OF  THE 


Ujiited  States 

"B^  IDivn  le  Hppointnient, 


AND  THE 


Doom  of  Monarchy 


As  Predicted  in  Revelation. 


THE    FUTURE 

Of  THE  — 

UNITED  STATES 

BY 

DIVINE    APPOINTMENT       ^^^^ 

AND  THE 

DOOM    OF    MONARCHY, 

AS 

fREDICTED  IN   I^EVELATIO^I. 


BY  REV.  0.  B.  WRIGHT. 


t. 


1887. 
ELIJAH  GAY,  PUBLISHER. 

LOS  ANaSLES,  CjLL. 


•  ••  ••» •  •  < 


DEDICATION, 


WE  dedicate  this  little  volume  to  the  working  class  ot 
America.  For — to  them  we  owe  the  liberty  we  enjoy ; 
they  have  stood  by  our  country  in  every  instance ;  they  have 
raised  the  provisions  to  feed  their  brethren  in  the  field ;  and 
at  one  and  the  same  time  fought  her  battles,  tilled  the  soil,  and 
are  ever  ready  to  bear  their  breasts  to  the  bullets  when  her 
free  institutions  are  in  danger.  God  bless  them,  and  forever 
give  into  their  hand  the  country  they  so  richly  deserve. 

THE  AUTHOR. 


Entered  accordirgto  act  of  Congress  in  the  year  18S7  by  D.  B.  WRIGHT  in 
the  oflace  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress  at  Washington. 


INTRODUCTION 


That  either  the  monarchical  form  of  goyernment,  or  thft 
Republican  form,  must  become  universal  on  earth,  is  a  self- 
evident  truth.  We  Americans  see  very  readily  that  the  free. 
Democratic,  representative  form  of  government,  of  which  we 
are  the  great  successful  representative,  must  and  will  supplant 
all  monarchy  and  become  universal.  And  it  begins  to  be  seen 
and  felt  by  the  crowned  heads  of  Europe  and  the  more  enlight- 
ened and  thoughtful  of  their  subjects.  The  Empress  Eugenie, 
several  years  ago,  ventured  the  prophecy  that  in  fifty  years 
t'lere  would  not  be  a  crowned  head  in  Europe.  And  an  event 
that  is  so  readily  sanctioned  by  reason,  and  is  such  a  natural 
and  unavoidable  sequence  of  our  rapidly  advancing  civilization, 
and,  above  all,  is  plainly  taught  of  God  in  the  predictions  of 
prophecy,  must  and  will  be  among  the  events  of  subsequent 
history,  and  cannot  be  very  far  distant.  The  history  of  the 
world  is  but  the  history  of  God's  dealings  with  the  nations,  and 
prophecy  is  but  the  history  of  nations  pre-written. 

Now,  we  claim  in  this  unassuming  book  that  God  has  a 
grand  and  glorious  future  for  our  nation,  one  that  will  make 
the  heart  of  every  true  citizen  swell  with  patriotic  joy,  and 
cause  all  lovers  of  Bible  democracy  in  every  land  to  rejoice 
•  with  us.  And  in  accomplishing  it  God  will  not  use  the  great 
things  of  the  world,  great  in  the  estimation  of  men,  or  the  wise 
things  of  men.  "  But  God  hath  chosen  the  foolish  things  of 
the  world  to  confound  the  wise;  and  God  hath  chosen  the  weak 
things  of  the  world  to  confound  the  things  which  are  mighty: 
and  base  things  of  the  world,  and  things  which  are  despised, 
hath  God  chosen;  yea,  and  things  which  are  not,  to  bring  to 
nought  things  that  are."     (I.  Cor.,  1 — 27.) 


740014 


'  '  4*  ^'  '  S.'  INTRODUCTION. 


We  announce  here  in  the  beginning  of  our  book  that  God 
intends  to  accomplish  the  great  future  of  our  nation  througli 
the  instrumentality  of  the  laboring  classes. 

God  has  always  claimed  the  poor  of  this  world  as  his  own 
peculiar  inheritance.  When  his  Son  was  in  the  world  it  was 
not  the  learned,  the  rich,  and  the  great,  or  the  officials  in  either 
church  or  state  that  received  him,  but  the  ''  common  people 
heard  him  gladly." 

This  book  claims  that  God's  ancient  nationality,  the  Jewish 
Republic  in  the  wilderness,  and  finally  established  in  the  land 
of  Canaan,  was  a  type  of  which  our  nation  is  the  antetype,  he 
established  that  nation  to  prefigure  our  glorious  nation  in  the 
"time  of  the  end." 

And  when  he  established  that  nation  he  did  not  employ  the 
wealth  and  power,  and  influence  of  kings  and  heroes  and  states- 
men, etc.,  but  he  took  a  band  of  degraded,  ignorant  slaves, 
laboring  in  a  brick  yard  in  Egypt  under  task-masters;  none 
could  be  found  poorer,  or  weaker,  or  in  a  more  hopeless  con- 
dition, and  the  first  dash  he  made  with  them  he  shook  proud 
Pharoah's  throne  to  the  dust,  and  nearly  destroyed  the  most 
powerful  empire  in  the  world. 

God  uses  only  those  things  that  are  put  in  his  hands  freely 
and  voluntarily  to  be  used  according  to  his  will.  Those  pos- 
sessed of  wealth  or  power  of  any  kind  will  not  do  this,  but  the 
poor  of  all  ages  have  ever  lifted  their  hands  to  heaven  and 
prayed:  "Our  Father  lead  us." 

God  intended  in  raising  up  this  nation  to  establish  a  nation 
in  which  the  elective  franchise  should  be  in  the  hands  of  the 
laboring  classes,  and  that  the  masses  should  rule,  and  not  a 
hereditary  aristocracy  as  in  Europe,  nor  an  aristocracy  built 
upon  a  monied  monopoly  as  in  America,  for  it  is  a  well  known 
fact  that  in  our  glorious  "  land  of  the  free,"  a  monied  monopoly 
seeks  to  throttle  our  government,  and  we  call  upon  the  working 
mpu  of  America  to  wield  that  mighty  weapon  which  God  has 


INTRODUCTION. 


placed  in  our  fingers — the  ballot — take  to  yourselves  that 
mighty  power,  and  rule  this  nation  as  God  has  intended  you 
should. 

We  asked  an  ex-senator  not  long  since  what  would  be  the  end 
of  this  monied  monopoly  that  was  so  rapidly  gathering  strength 
in  our  nation,  and  he  replied,  that  it  was  the  opinion  of  most 
men  that  it  would  end  in  the  destruction  of  life  and  property. 
Well,  now  there  is  no  need  of  that;  if  you  will  take  to  your- 
selves your  right  and  your  power  to  rule  this  nation  before  it 
6  rested  from  you.  No  people  have  a  right  to  resort  to  severe 
means  while  they  hold  in  their  grasp  the  elective  franchise; 
when  that  is  rested  from  them,  then  death  to  tyrants  in  any 
form  is  justifiable;  that  is  why  we  sympathize  with  the  poor 
people  of  Russia  who  are  writhing  beneath  the  iron  heel  of  des- 
potism. They  have  not  the  omnipotent  ballot  or  if  they  have 
any  power  in  that  direction  it  is  very  suspiciously  and  vigil- 
antly guarded,  and  neutralized  by  the  few  that,  in  Russia,  seem 
determined  cost  what  it  will,  to  rule  the  many;  that  magnani- 
mous fett;  that  ever  seeks  to  rule  the  many  have  always  been 
found  in  every  age  and  in  all  lands,  even  in  our  beloved 
America. 

Now,  my  countrymen,  suffer  this  little  hortatory  as  an  intro- 
duction to  our  book,  and  put  your  ballot  where  it  will  tell  for 
you  and  your  children;  where  it  will  tell  for  liberty  of  the  press, 
freedom  of  speech,  and  freedom  of  conscience. 

We  shall  now  address  ourselves  to  the  task  of  showing  God's 
hand  in  our  rise,  growth,  and  glorious  future  that  awaits  us, 
and  also  His  direct  interposition  in  the  overthrow  and  utter 
annihilation  of  monarchy  on  the  earth. 


PREFACE. 


We  do  not  claim  to  be  a  discoverer.  The  honor  of  the  dis- 
covery of  the  following  theory  is,  we  think,  due  to  the  late  Dr. 
Baldwin.  We  give  his  views  in  his  own  language,  or  nearly 
so,  but  we  do  not  follow  him  strictly  in  our  own  views.  We 
take  him  only  in  the  main  features.  While  we  readily  acknowl- 
edge that  without  him  we  could  not  see  as  far  as  he  did,  as  we 
are  privileged  to  stand  upon  his  shoulders,  we  ought  to  see 
farther.  We  take  up  this  great  subject  because  those  who 
rank  among  the  scholars  of  our  day,  hence  have  the  power  of 
research  necessary  to  the  great  task,  and  ought  to  take  it  up 
and  give  the  ministry  as  well  as  the  laity  some  definite  theory 
of  prophecy,  refuse  to  do  so. 

But  they  might  reply  to  my  friendly  censure  by  telling  me 
that  I  can  afford  to  "  tackle  "  it,  as  I  have  all  to  gain  and 
nothing  to  lose,  while  they  have  all  to  lose  and  nothing  to  gain. 

But  we  are  encouraged  in  this  bold  "adventure,  feeling  the 
blessing  of  God  upon  us  in  it,  and  emboldened  by  the  fact  that 
that  time  promised  to  Daniel  when  the  Prophecies  should  be 
unsealed,  has  come,  "  the  time  of  the  end,"  not  end  of  time,  as 
some  read;  that  would  have  been  useless  to  have  given  to  the 
world  of  mankind  a  revelation  that  was  not  intended  to  be 
understood  until  it  was  too  late  for  mankind  to  be  profited  by 
it.  Such  a  thought  is  too  dishonoring  to  God.  Nay,  leave  it 
to  the  heathen  oracles  to  surround  themselves  with  an  imag- 
inary mystery,  well  suited  to  awe  the  marvelousness  of  human 
nature.  But  God  says  His  revelation  was  sent  as  a  light  into 
the  world,  and  "that  no  prophecy  of  the  Scriptures  is  of  any 
private  interpretation,  and  is  profitable  for  doctrine,  for  reproof, 
for  correction,  for  instruction  in  righteousness."     A  prophecy 


PREFACE. 


given  in  one  dispensation  of  time,  to  transpire  during  a  future 
period  or  dispensation  of  time,  is  sometimes  sealed,  or  inten- 
tionally hidden  from  us,  until  the  beginning  of  that  period, 
when  it  becomes  the  duty  of  all  God's  enlightened  people  to 
discern  them,  and  even  the  unconverted  world  that  lieth  in 
darkness  is  held  culpable  for  not  recognizing  God's  hand  in  the 
unfolding  events. 

While  God  gives  the  Prophecies  in  such  occult  language  as 
to  not  be  understood  until  they  begin  to  be  fulfilled,  or,  in  other 
words,  until  they  are  unsealed,  he  does  hold  us  culpable  for 
not  discerning  them  when  that  time  arrives.  One  of  the  most 
severe  rebukes  which  Christ  dealt  to  the  people  of  his  day  was 
for  their  not  discerning  the  fulfillment  of  the  Prophecies,  then 
being  fulfilled  before  their  eyes. 

We  claim  for  the  fo  lowing  theory  that  it  systematizes  the 
Prophecies.  It  will  be  readily  discerned  by  the  Bible  student 
that  the  true  theory  would  of  necessity  throw  all  prophecy  into 
a  beautiful  and  harmonious  system,  and  that  no  other  theory 
could,  hence  the  leading  principle  to  be  laid  down,  in  the  inter- 
pretation of  prophecy,  is  that  it  must  systematize  and  harmonize 
the  Prophets.  .  Error  cannot  be  systematized;  truth  only  can. 
All  interpretations  must  coincide  with  the  literal  and  evan- 
gelical doctrines  of  the  Bible.  It  is  a  true  maxim  that  "the 
•:)erfect  coincidence  of  events  with  prophecy  is  infallible  prool 
of  the  fulfillment  of  prophecy."  Jesus  held  closely  to  this 
pdnciple,  strictly  fulfilling  all  that  the  prophets  had  predicted 
of  Him,  and  it  is  in  recognition  of  this  principle  that  we  believe 
in  Him  as  the  true  Messiah. 

Many  predictions  refer  to  two,  and  sometimes  more,  events, 
as  in  the  case  of  Matt*  ii.,  17,  18.  If  we  look  at  Jer.  xxxi.  15, 
we  will  find  those  words  applied  to  altogether  another  and  dif- 
ferent event,  as  Dr.  Adam  Clark  plainly  shows;  also  see  Adam 
Clark  on  Isaiah,  Ixi.  1,  where  he  shows  the  double  application 
more  forcil  ly  as  .Jesus  makes  the  application  himself.     It  is  iu 


PKKFACE. 


peculiarity  of  prophecy  to  give  "  here  a  little  and  there  a  little," 
hence  one  sentence  will  follow  another,  as  wide  apart  in  their 
application  as  the  first  and  second  advent  of  Christ.  As  in 
Luke  iv.  18,  there  our  blessed  Saviour  '*went  into  the  syna- 
gogue on  the  Sabbath  day  and  stood  up  to  read,"  and  he  read 
from  the  book  of  the  Prophet  Isaiah,  and  he  stopped  reading 
in  the  middle  of  a  sentence.  Now,  it  is  evident  to  our  mind 
that  the  omitted  part  of  the  sentence  applies  to  his  second 
coming  to  our  world.  He  closed  the  book  and  sat  down,  and 
said  unto  them:  "This  day  is  this  Scripture  fulfilled  in  your 
ears."  When  He  comes  again  will  He  not  finish  the  sentence 
with  propriety  ? 


THE  UNITED  STATES  IN  THE  RESTORATION. 


All  the  intellectual  creatures  of  God  throughout  the  universe 
have  a  dual  nature;  a  spiritual  nature  that  constitutes  them 
religious  beings,  and  a  social  nature  that  constitutes  them 
political  beings;  hence  God's  great  universal  empire  is  in 
keeping  with  these  two  principles,  and  is  of  a  dual  nature. 
These  two  constitutional  qualities  in  man  "have  resulted 
universally  in  some  kind  of  religion  and  some  kind  of  civil 
government.  In  a  state  of  purity  and  perfection,  as  with  the 
angels  in  Heaven,  or  with  man  as  he  was  first  created,  this  has 
resulted  in  a  pure  religion  and  a  perfect  civil  government.  At 
the  fall  of  man,  the  rejection  of  the  true  God  as  monarch  in 
both  of  these  departments,  led  to  the  wildest  disorder  and 
universal  misery.  Probably  the  greatest  corruption  visible  to 
mortals  is  brought  to  view  in  human  governments. 

A  great  mind  has  said:  "  It  is  a  truth,  established  by  uni- 
versal experience,  that  all  civil  governments  among  mankind 
have  conformed  in  principle  and  practice  to  the  genius  of  the 
prevailing  religion  of  the  people."  Religion  has  controlled  the 
politics  of  the  world  in  all  ages.  If  the  religion  has  been  mild 
so  has  been  the  civil  government;  if  it  has  been  bloody  and 
despotic,  so  has  been  the  civil  government;  if  it  has  been  lib- 
eral and  enlightened,  so  has  been  thu  civil  policy.  This  has 
resulted  from  a  law  of  nature,  by  which  inferior  things  are 
controlled  by  superior;  and  as  the  spiritual  nature  of  man 
exercises  supreme  power  over  his  conduct  in  his  individual 
capacity,  so  does  it  in  his  aggregated  state.  To  subdue  man 
it  was,  therefore,  necessary  to  subjugate  his  spiritual  nature 
first,  to  regenerate  him  as  a  religious  race,  and  then  his  polit- 
ical regeneration  would  follow  inevittibly.     A  physical  victory 


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might  have  resulted  in  a  moment  from  the  weight  of  Omnipo- 
tence, but  a  moral  victory  could  not  thus  speedily  be  obtained 
from  the  eternal  and  immutable  and  self-existent  principle  of 
moral  agency.  As  it  is  the  natural  result  of  all  kinds  of 
religion  to  form  its  subjects  into  some  kind  of  civil  govern- 
ment, so  it  has  been  with  the  religion  of  the  Bible. 

The  Jewish  Church,  as  soon  as  it  extricated  itself  from  bond- 
age, formed  itself  into  a  nationality.  That  nationality,  on 
account  of  the  backsliding  and  infidelity  of  the  people,  came 
to  an  end,  as  it  had  been  predicted  by  their  prophets.  At  the 
same  time  they  predicted  its  rise  again  and  establishment  on 
earth  as  the  Israel  of  God  to  endure  forever.  There  is  noth- 
ing more  forcibly  predicted  in  the  word  of  inspiration  than  the 
restoration  of  Israel.  All  the  prophets  have  dwelt  upon  it  and 
spoke  of  its  future  glory  in  the  most  extravagant  language,  and 
use  the  loftiest  types  and  symbols,  from  Daniel  to  St.  John,  the 
Apocalypse,  and  tl\^  Christian  world  has  ever  looked  and  is 
still  looking  for  its  ribc.  Now,  Israel  restored  is  to  be  a  nation- 
ality naturally  arising  c  iit  of  God's  recognized  Church.  The 
Christian  Church  claims  to  be  that  Church.  We  have  come  in 
the  place  of  the  Jewish  Church.  As  the  Apostle  Paul  says  : 
"  The  Jews  being  the  natural  vine,  and  being  broken  off' 
through  unbelief,  we  gentiles,  a  wild  olive  tree,  are  grafted 
onto  the  natural  stock."  But  he  says  also:  "  There  is  no  dif- 
ference between  Jew  and  Gentile;  we  are  all  counted  in  unbe- 
lief and  are  all  received  through  faith,  whether  Jew  or  Gentile, 
for  he  is  not  a  Jew,  which  is  one  outwardly,  neither  is  that  cir- 
cumcision which  is  outward  in  the  flesh;  but  he  is  a  Jew, 
which  is  one  inwardly,  and  circumcision  is  that  of  the  heart, 
in  the  spirit  and  not  in  the  letter,  whose  praise  is  not  of  men 
but  of  God.  So  it  is  Chistian  Israel  or,  in  other  words,  Christ's 
Israel,  that  is  to  be  restored,  but  the  Jews  are  to  be  compre- 
hended in  it,  for  I  truly  believe  our  Hebrew  brethren  will  yet 
come  to  see  and  believe  that  Jesus  Christ  was  and  is  the  true 


IN    THE    RESTORATION.  H 


Messiah  which  was  promised  by  their  Prophets,  and  they, 
through  xVith  will  be  received  of  God  the  same  as  we  Gentiles 
are  received  by  faith,  and  they,  comjng  with  that  true  inward 
circumcision  of  the  heart,  they  will  bear  a  grand  and  glorious 
part  in  the  glorious  restoration  of  God's  Israel. 

But,  in  order  to  recognize  God's  Israel  when  it  is  restored 
and  appears  among  the  nations  of  the  earth,  we  must  know 
what  kind  of  a  nationality  it  will  be,  what  kind  of  a  govern- 
ment it  will  have.  You  will  all  see  at  a  glance  that  there 
never  was  and  never  can  be  but  two  kinds  of  government. 
According  to  the  constitution  of  man,  there  can  be  but  two 
kinds  of  civil  or  spiritual  government.  All  governments  must 
either  be  republics  or  monarchies.  There  may  be^various 
kinds  of  each,  but  there  is  no  harmonious  medium  kind,  nor 
can  there  be.  There  may  be  absolute,  limited,  constitutional 
or  hereditary  monarchies,  but  they  all  agree  in  asserting  or 
practicing  the  doctrine  that  the  right  of  governing  does  not 
exist  in  the  consent  of  the  governed.  There  may  be  autocratic, 
democratic,  representative  and  confederate  republics,  but  they 
all  agree  there  is  no  right  of  government  except  by  the 
expressed  consent  of  the  governed.  These  two  can  never  exist 
in  a  blended  state  harmoniously,  because  their  principles  are 
essentially  and  originally  antagonistic.  Now,  it  is  equally 
plain  that  God's  Israel,  restored  to  nationality,  must  be  a  den  - 
ocratic  republic. 

First,  because  republican  principles  are  the  natural  out- 
growth of  Christianity.  Wherever  Christianity  is  received  into 
the  human  heart,  and  the  man  becomes  imbued  with  its  spirit, 
civil  and  religious  liberty  are  at  once  felt  to  be  the  great  bless- 
ings of  man  on  earth.  Again,  nothing  but  a  republic  can  be  in 
keeping  with  the  great  law  of  love,  as  taught  in  the  Gospe] 
and  throughout  the  Bible.  "Thou  shalt  love  the  Lord  thy  God 
with  all  thy  soul  and  strength  and  thy  neighbor  as  thyself." 
This  great  law  of  God,  the  dual  law  of  love  supreme  to  God  and 


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equal  love  of  neighbors,  is  justly  called  the  great  constitutional 
law  of  the  universe,  and  the  Decalogue,  based  upon  it,  is  but 
the  constitutional  law  of  a  single  province  of  God's  empire,  as 
in  our  world.  This  great  law  of  love  to  neighbor  as  to  self,  is 
a  ]aw  conferring  equal  rights  among  all  citizens  of  the  same 
government.  It  is  diametrically  opposed  to  human  legitimacy, 
p'  )acy,  and  absolutism.  It  is  not  conformable  to  hereditary 
a  ^stocracy,  nor  can  it  be;  it  is  democratic,  purely,  and  places 
all  citizens  of  the  same  country  upon  a  dead  level  as  to  right  to 
rule,  and  confers  exclusive  favors  upon  none.  God  is,  accord- 
ing to  it  the  only  one  that  has  a  divine  right  to  exercise 
kingship,  and  He  is,  by  consequence,  opposed  to  all  human 
monarchy  and  hates  it  as  a  feature  of  hell.  In  the  first  book 
of  Samuel,  8th  chapter,  we  have  the  opinion  of  God  and  Israel 
about  kings,  and  it  is  one  of  great  repugnance  on  God's  part 
and  repentance  on  Israel's.  Israel  asked  Samuel  to  make 
them  a  king,  but  he  was  displeased  with  the  proposition  and 
prayed  to  God  about  it,  and  God  replied  to  him,  "  they  have 
not  rejected  thee,  but  they  have  rejected  me,  that  I  should  not 
reign  over  them.  Now,  therefore,  hearken  unto  their  voice,  yet 
protest  solemnly  and  shew  them  the  manner  of  the  king  that 
shall  reign  over  them."  After  a  king  was  chosen,  God  sig- 
nified his  displeasure  by  a  terr^'ble  thunder  storm  in  wheat 
harvest,  and  the  people  were  greatly  terrified,  for  Samuel  said, 
"I  shall  call  unto  the  Lord,  and  He  shall  send  thunder  and 
rain  that  ye  may  perceive  and  see  that  your  wickedness  is 
great  which  ye  have  done  in  the  sight  of  the  Lord,  in  asking 
you  a  king,"  and  the  people  said  unto  Samuel,  "  pray  for  thy 
servants  unto  the  Lord  thy  God  that  we  die  not,  for  we  have 
added  unto  all  our  sins  this  evil,  to  ask  us  a  king." 

)It  is  evident  that  God  considers  a  human  monarchy  as 
exceedingly  sinful,  and  as  standing  in  direct  hostility  to  Him- 
self, and  he  has  but  little  patience  with  it.  It  is  also  obvious 
that  in  the  recovery  of  the  world  to  good  government,  in  the 


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progress  of  Christianity,  that  human  monarchy  will  share  no 
part  nor  lot  in  the  new  organization.  God  is,  therefore,  hostile 
to  human  monarchy,  because  the  system  is  iniquitous  in  prin- 
ciple, and  he  will  destroy  it  because  of  its  wicked  nature. 

If  you  reply,  "  the  powers  that  be  are  ordained  of  God,"  we 
answer  that  this  does  not  prove  monarchy  correct  in  principle, 
for  God  uses  monarchy  as  he  does  other  curses,  for  the  sake  of 
chastising  evil  people.  Thus  the  king  of  Babylon  punished  the 
Tyrians,  and  Cyrus  punished  Babylon  at  God's  instigation,  and 
wicked  nations  need  tyrants  to  punish  them  for  their  vice. 
God  said:  "  0,  Israel,  I  will  be  thy  king.  I  gave  thee  a  king 
in  my  anger,  and  took  him  away  in  my  wrath."  Monarchy  is, 
therefore,  a  curse  added  to  a  vicious  people,  who  are  unworthy 
of  freedom.  In  the  spiritual  and  political  redemption  of  4ihe 
world,  it  therefore  follows  that  monarchy  must  be  overthrown. 
God  permits  human  monarchies  to  exist,  and  he  always  has  a 
purpose  in  it,  but  all  the  governments  He  has  established 
among  men  have  been  of  the  democratic-republican  form. 
The  government  of  the  ancient  Jews,  their  first  government, 
the  one  God  organized  for  them,  was  a  theocratic  democracy. 
Now,  the  Hebrew  system  was  a  typical  one  throughout,  in  both 
Church  and  State,  and  Israel  restored  to  nationality,  that 
nation  which  should  arise  in  the  world  and  endure  forever,  and 
should  develop  into  the  millennial  kingdom,  and  to  which  we 
are  told  Christ  is  to  come,  is  to  be  its  ante-type. 

All  who  read  the  Bible  know  that  this  nationality  is  une- 
quivocally promised  to  Israel  in  the  Christian  era,  or  latter  day. 
Now,  the  United  States,  being  a  late  and  extraordinary  Chris- 
tian people,  arising  late  in  the  Christian  era,  we  enquire  may 
it  not  be  the  veritable  nationality  of  the  Prophets.  If  it  coin- 
cides with  all  the  great  characteristics  predicted  of  a  Christian 
nationality,  then  all  doubt  must  end,  and  our  country,  says 
Mr.  Baldwin,  "rise  into  an  importance  and  sublimity  abso- 
lutely overwhelming."     And  this  is  what  we  propose  to  show 


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beyond  a  successful  contradiction:  We  propose  to  show  in 
these  papers  that  this  great  nation  is  the  one  predicted  by  the 
Prophets,  and  is  the  great  millennial  kingdom  in  embryo. 

We  have  said  that  the  Hebrew  Church  and  State  were  the 
type  of  which  the  Church  and  State,  in  the  restoration  of  Israel 
to  nationality,  were  to  be  the  ante-type.  About  300  years  after 
the  Jewish  Church  started  in  Abraham,  it  went  into  bondage 
in  Egypt,  and  through  Joseph  was  connected  with  the  throne; 
and  about  300  years  after  the  Christian  Church  was  estab- 
lished, it  went  into  bondage  by  being  connected  with  the  throne 
of  the  Roman  empire.  As  the  Jewish  Church  came  out  of 
Egyptian  bondage,  crossed  a  sea  and  established  a  nationality 
in  a  wilderness,  so  the  Christian  Church  came  out  of  spiritual 
bondage  in  Europe,  the  Union  of  Church  and  State,  and  crossed 
a  sea  and  established  a  nationality  in  a  wilderness. 

As  many  people  in  the  American  colonies  were  not  pious, 
and  yet  approved  of  the  liberty  taught  by  Christianity,  so  many 
of  the  Hebrews  were  unbelievers  in  the  religion  of  Moses,  and 
yet  approved  and  contended  for  the  justness  of  constitutional 
liberty.  Those  who  imagine  that  ante-typical  Israel  was  to  be 
composed  of  pure  and  holy  men  altogether,  are  greatly  mis- 
taken.- On  this  principle,  the  Hebrew  Church,  as  a  type, 
would  have  required  that  ever;y  rnember  of  the  ante-typical 
or  Christian  Church  should  have  been  holy.  As  the  Church 
of  typical  Israel  (Hebrew  nation)  possessed  true  doctrine, 
though  many  who  belonged  to  it  were  impure,  so  the  common- 
wealth of  ante-typical  Israel  (Christianity  in  America)  pos- 
sesses the  true  doctrine  of  human  government,  though  many 
who  enjoy  its  benefits  are  not  true  Christians.  Many  Chris- 
lians  get  a  la^r  period  blended  with  the  rise  of  Israel;  they 
read  that  in  the  restoration  all  shall  be  taught  of  the  Lord  and 
all  shall  be  holy,  etc.;  but  if  they  would  read  a  little  more 
carefully,  they  would  perceive  that  this  is  not  said  of  the  rise 
of  Israel,  it  is  of  a  later  period. 


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111  the  end  of  time  the  angels  shall  gather  out  of  the  govern- 
ment of  ante-typical  Israel,  or  "out  of  the  kingdom,  all  things 
that  offend,  and  them  that  do  iniquity." 

As  there  were  twelve  tribes  of  Israel,  and  Joseph's  tribe  was 
divided,  making  thirteen,  so  William  Penn  had  two  colonies 
ceded  to  him,  making  just  thirteen  colonies  in  the  restoration.* 
'  The  Hebrew  Confederacy  was  organized  into  a  more  perfect 
union  alter  the  exodus,  by  adopting  a  written  democratic  con- 
stitution, and  so  the  Confederate  colonies  after  the  war  of  inde- 
pendence, in  order  to  form  a  more  perfect  union,  adopted  a 
written,  representative,  democratic,  federative  constitution. 
The  Hebrew  constitution  was  submitted  to  the  tribes  for 
acceptance  and  ratiftcation,  and  so  was  the  American  constitu- 
tion. It  is  not  a  little-  remarkable  that  the  Hebrew  and  Amer- 
ican constitutions  are  the  only  two  written  ones  ever  known  to 
have  been  adopted  at  the  birth  of  any  nationality  prior  to  1776. 

The  Hebrew  bondage,  consequent  upon  the  descent  into  Egypt 
coincides  with  the  civil  and  spiritual  bondage  suff'Ted  by  spirit- 
ual Israel  after  the  union  of  Church  and  State.  The  exodus  from 
typical  Egypt,  the  crossing  a  sea,  the  overthrow  of  Pharoah's  host, 
the  general  thanksgiving,  the  organization  of  a  republican  con- 
federacy of  thirteen  tribes,  composed  of  three  millions  of  people; 
the  adoption  of  a  written  constitution  by  the  tribes;  the  separa- 
tion of  the  Church  and  State  departments;  their  freedom  from 
control  of  one  by  the  other;  their  laws  of  servitude  and  natural- 
ization, and  their  full  organization  and  deliverance,  under  a 
noble  leader  in  a  wilderness,  have  all  a  complete  correspondence 
in  the  United  States  of  America.  • 

We  will  take  up  now  some  of  the  literal  prophecies  of  the 

*NoTE  Since  these  papers  were  written,  we  have  seen  in  the  public 
prints  an  account  stating  that  they  were  about  to  bring  the  remains  of 
William  Penn  to  this  country  ( ante-tvpical  Israel)  for  interment.  It 
Avould  seem  they  were  (without  intending  so  to  do)  trying  to  make  ante- 
typical  Israel  answer  its  type  in  detail.  Joseph's'  bones  liad  to  be 
carefully  *aken  up  out  of  Ejrypt  k  d  buried  in  Israel. 


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restoration  of  Israel.  And  that  we  may  better  understand  the 
literal  prophecies,  we  will  do  well  to  keep  before  us  the  fact 
that  God  revealed  to  his  Prophets,  the  facts  but  not  always  the 
manner  of  them.  Again  He  did  not  increase  their  scientific 
knowledge;  they  spoke  of  everything  in  keeping  with  the 
scientific  knowledge  of  their  day. 

The  word  of  inspiration  is  so  full  of  this  class  of  prophecies, 
all  so  minutely  pointing  out  our  nation,  that  we  hardly  know 
where  to  begin.  Perhaps  it  would  be  as  well  to  commence  with 
that  prediction  that  so  minutely  describes  the  first  settlement 
of  this  continent  and  the  first  inception  of  our  nationality. 
This  is  recorded  in  Isaiah  Ix.  9  :  "  Surely  the  isles  shall  wait 
for  me  and  the  ships  of  Tarshish,  first  to  bring  thy  sons  from 
far."  To  understand  a  prophecy,  we  must  understand  in  what 
age  of  the  world  it  was  uttered,  and  where  the  prophet  stood 
when  he  uttered  it.  This  prophecy  was  made  in  Palestine  in 
western  Asia,  called  Asia  Minor.  There  were  vast  countries 
at  that  day  supposed  to  exist  in  the  Atlantic,  west  of  Gib- 
raltar, and  we  artj  told  by  the  best  authority  on  history  that 
they  were  termed  "isles  "  by  both  Plato  and  Diodorus  Siculus. 

You  will  please  observe  that  the  Prophet  represents  God  as 
speaking,  and  speaking  in  the  first  person,  in  the  first  part  of 
the  Prophecy,  "  the  isles  shall  wait  for  tti^,"  and  then  he  speaks 
in  the  second  person,  "  and  the  ships  of  Tarshish,  first  to  bring 
thy  sons  from  far,"  as  though  he  would  say,  "  the  great  conti- 
nent (lying  on  the  other  side  of  the  then  unexplored  Atlantic) 
shall  be  kept  for  this  purpose  of  which  I  am  speaking.  The 
hardy  Norsemen  may  navigate  its  seas  and  touch  upon  its 
shores,  but  I  shall  frustrate  every  attempt  to  colonize.  It 
'  shall  wait  for  me '  until  a  great  Christian  people  shall  need  it 
to  flee  to  from  spiritual  bondage  and  oppression,  and  start  the 
embryo  of  my  Christian  Israel,  and  then,  Israel,  'the  ships  of 
Tarshish  '  shall  be  '  first  to  bring  thy  sons  from  far.'  " 

It   was  a   fact   constantly  kept  in   mind  by  all   of  Gods^ 


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Prophets,  even  at  that  early  day,  that  "  westward  the  course  of 
empire  takes  its  ways."  Hence  the  Prophet  knew  that  the 
glorious  nation,  which  he  was  describing,  was  in  the  west,  and 
hence,  according  to  his  knowledge  of  geography,  roust  be  in  the 
region  known  as  the  "  isles."  "  The  ships  of  Tarshish  " — Tar- 
shish,  as  you  all  know,  was  the  most  ancient  name  of  Spain. 
"  Ships  of  Tarshish /rsi."  As  prophecy  notes  only  the  greatest 
events  of  time,  the  term  "first "  must  apply  to  some  very  im- 
portant and  famous  circumstance.  America  answers  to  the 
"  waiting  isles,"  and  "  the  ships  of  Tarshish  first  to  bring  thy 
sons,"  to  the  discovery  of  America  by  the  ships  of  Spain.  It 
has  always  seemed  very  strange  to  i:s  that  America  was  not 
colonized  before  it  was;  that  this  great  and  rich  continent, 
capable  of  sustaining  such  a  vast  population,  should  lie  here 
unoccupied,  and  that,  too,  when  the  population  of  Europe  was 
so  dense  and  needed  this  continent  to  spread  out  in.  But  God 
plainly  tells  us  in  this  Prophecy  that  He  preserved  it  until  His 
Christian  Israel  was  strong  enough  and  the  time  had  arrived 
for  them  to  take  possession  and  build  up  a  great  Christian 
republic,  which  should  develop  into  the  millennial  kingdom. 
^^  Surely  the  isles  shall  wait  for  me";  the  words  "surely"  and 
"me"  plainly  show  that  He  intentionally  resevyed  it  for  His 
own  purposes.  Again,  Ezek.  xlvii.  13;  "  Ye  shall  inherit  the 
land  according  to  the  twelve  tribes  of  Israel;  Joseph  shall 
have  two  portions."  Joseph  had  two  portions  of  old  Israel, 
and  thus  there  were  thirteen  tribes;  and  here  we  are  informed 
that  the  same  numler  was  to  exist  at  the  rise  of  Christian 
Israel.  In  the  next  chapter,  the  48th,  it  is  said  these  divisions 
shall  lie  side  by  side  on  a  great  sea,  with  their  limits  extend- 
ing from  sea  to  sea,  "  from  the  east  side  unto  the  west  side  " 
of  the  continent.  Now,  is  it  not  an  astonishing  fulfillment  of 
prophecy,  when  we  see  the  United  States  taking  its  rise  in 
twelve  colonies,  and  William  Penn,  like  Joseph,  having  t,vo 
ceded  to  him,  making  thirteen  in  all,  and  they  lying  side  by 


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side  on  a  great  sea?  But  it  is  truly  overpowering  evidence  of 
fulfillment,  when  we  see  that  the  langupge  of  the  old  charters 
was  that  they  should  "  extend  westward  irom  sea  to  sea." 

Again,  Isaiah  ii.  2-3:  "And  it  shall  come  to  pass,  in  the 
last  days,  that  the  mountain  of  the  Lord's  house  shall  be 
established  in  the  top  of  the  mountains  and  shall  be  exhalted 
above  the  hills,  and  all  nations  shall  flow  unto  it,  and  many 
people  shall  go  and  say,  '  come  ye  and  let  us  go  up  to  the 
mountain  of  the  Lord,  to  the  house  of  the  God  of  Jacob.' "  The 
term  "  mountain  "  in  the  prophecies  invariably  means  govern- 
ment of  some  kind,  either  civil  or  ecclesiastical.  The  expres- 
sion *' last  days"  signifies  the  Christian  era;  in  this  place  it 
means  the  time  from  the  rise  of  Christian  Israel  to  the  coming 
of  Christ.  The  expression,  "  let  us  go  up  to  the  mountain  (or 
nationality)  of  the  Lord,"  intimates  that  its  locality  shall  be 
elevated,  and  Lieutenant  Maury  shows  that  the  whole  earth,  to 
reach  us,  is  literally  obliged  to  come  up  to  us.  We  are  on  the 
physical  head  of  the  world.  The  gulf  stream  runs  at  the  rate 
of  four  miles  an  hour  across  the  whole  breadth  of  the  Atlantic. 
The  expression,  "  all  nations  shall  flow  unto  it,"  does  not  mean 
simply  that  emigrants  shall  come  from  all  nations  to  it,  as  they 
do  indeed  to  us,  but  that  all  nations,  as  nations,  shall  ulti- 
mately flow  into  it.  It  will  eventually  absorb  all  the  king- 
doms of  the  world.  As  St.  John  says,  in  speaking  of  a  later 
period  of  Israel  restored,  when  the  seventh  trumpet  sounded, 
"  there  were  great  voices  in  heaven  saying,  '  the  kingdoms  of 
this  world  are  become  the  kingdoms  of  our  Lord  and  of  His 
Christ,  and  He  shall  reign  forever  and  ever.' " 

Ezek.  xxxviii.  8:  "After  many  days  thou  shalt  be  visited; 
in  the  later  years  thou  shalt  come  into  the  land  that  is  brought 
back  from  the  sword  and  is  gathered  out  of  many  people  against 
the  mountains  of  Israel,  which  have  been  always  waste;  but  it 
is  brought  forth  out  of  the  nations,  and  they  shall  dwell  safely 
all  of  them."     The  expression,  "  after  many  days,"  is  explained 


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in  the  next  line  by  the  expression,  "in  the  latter  years."  He 
tells  us  in  this  verse  that  Christian  Israel  shall  be  restored  in 
a  land  which  has  "  been  always  waste."  What  land  can  an- 
swer to  this  but  America,  and  the  world  has  all  been  explored 
and  there  is  no  rich  section  lying  waste  of  sufficient  extent  in 
which  to  found  a  great  empire,  as  Israel  restored  must  of  neces- 
sity be.  He  says  again,  "  it  is  brought  forth  out  of  the  nations." 
This  is  not  the  same  as  the  similar  expression  in  this  Prophecy, 
'•  gathered  out  of  many  people,"  and  in  the  12th  verse  of  this 
chapter,  "  gathered  out  of  many  nations,"  an  expression  so  fre- 
quently used  by  the  Prophets  in  speaking  of  the  nationality  of 
Christian  Israel,  but  this  expression,  "brought  forth  out  of  the 
nations,"  means  that  it  had  its  rise  outside  of  the  nations,  (not 
founded  on  other  empires,  etc.,)  a  characteristic  of  Christian 
Israel  which  runs  through  all  the  predictions  of  it.  You  will 
please  note  this  fact  in  the  further  progress  of  this  subject. 
That  this  is  the  intended  meaning  is  further  seen  in  the  ex- 
pression that  follows.  "And  they  shall  dwell  safely  all  of 
them,"  means  that  their  position  in  the  earth  shall  be  such 
that  they  shall  not  be  easy  of  access  to  other  nations,  that  their 
natural  fastnesses  shall  be  like  the  great  Atlantic  and  Pacific. 
In  the  8th  verse,  as  we  have  seen,  God  was  addressing  Israel; 
in  the  11th  and  12th,  He  addresses  "Gog."  ^  Gog  and  Magog 
are  put  for  the  enemies  of  Israel  in  the  "latter  days."  "Gog" 
is  derived  from  "Magog,"  and  literally  means  a  "prince"  or 
"  ruler."  He  is  called  a  prince  or  head  of  many  countries. 
They  are  both  symbolic  terms,  and  are  meant  to  represent  Is- 
rael's enemies.  Hence  God  addresses  him  "thou"  (Gof^).^  I 
would  premise,  before  quoting  this,  that  God  is  speaking  of  a 
later  period  than  the  rise  of  Israel.  He  is  speaking  here  of  the 
great  battle  of  Armageddon,  which  ushers  in  the  millennium. 
"Thou  ,(Gog)  shalt  say,  I  will  go  up  to  the  land  of  unwalled 
villages;  I  will  go  to  them  that  are  at  rest,  that  dwell  safely, 
hW  of  them  dwelling  without  walls,  and  having  neither  bars 


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nor  gates;  to  turn  thy  hand  upon  the  desolate  places  that  are 
now  inhabited,  upon  the  people  that  are  gathered  out  of  the 
nations."  Here  we  have  the  same  expression,  "I  will  go  up  to 
the  land."  This  expression  is  always  used  when  speaking  of 
approach  to  Christian  Israel.  "  The  land  of  unwalled  villages, 
dwelling  without  walls,  and  having  neither  bars  nor  gates,  finds 
its  complete  fulfillment  with  us.  The  phrase,  "  at  rest,  that 
dwell  safely,  etc.,"  refers  again  to  their  being  a  distance  from 
other  nations.  We  are  ''  the  desolate  places  that  are  now  in- 
habited;" we  are  "the  people  that  are  gathered  out  of  the  na- 
tions." 

Isaiah  xlix.  23:  "Kings  shall  be  thy  nursing  fathers  and 
queens  thy  nursing  mothers."  The  word  "nursing"  in  the 
margin  is  translated  "  nourishers."  These  terms  imply  atten- 
tions to  the  infancy  of  the  restoration.  If  it  had  not  been  for 
the  attentions  of  royalty  in  our  early  history,  we  could  not  have 
survived.  From  the  time  Isabella  sold  her  jewels,  through  all 
our  weak  and  dependent  history,  they  were  our  support.  Mr. 
Baldwin  says:  "The  memorial  of  nursing  kings  and  queens 
and  princes  will  remain  upon  our  rivers  and  waters,  our  coun- 
ties and  towns,  our  cities  and  States,  while  time  shall  last. 
Louisiana,  Georgia,  the  Carolinas,  Virginia,  Maryland,  Dela- 
ware, New  York,  ^ew  Jersey  and  New  Hampshire  will  ever 
suggest  the  early  interest  of  royalty  in  our  colonial  history." 

Isaiah  i.  26:  "I  will  restore  thy  judges  as  at  the  first,  and 
thy  counselors  as  at  the  beginning.''^  This  shows  emphatically 
what  kind  of  a  government  Christian  Israel  shall  be.  It  shall 
be  like  the  Hebrew  republic  in  the  beginning,  not  after  they 
had  wickedly  changed  it  into  a  monarchy.  Judges  and  coun- 
selors were  an  essential  part  of  Hebrew  democracy,  or  of  th'.- 
first  government,  the  one  God  established  for  them,  and  it 
shows  emphatically  that  their  restoration  implies  republicanism 

Jere.  xxx.  21:  "Their  nobles  shall  be  of  themselves,  and 
their  governor  from  the  midst  of  them."     What  country  but 


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ours  will  answer  to  this?  No  comment  of  ours  will  enlighten 
this.  Isaiah  xlvii.  17:  "Thy  destroyers,  and  they  that  make 
thee  waste,  shall  go  forth  of  thee."  The  principles  of  mon- 
archy in  any  form,  spiritual  or  civil,  have  always  wasted  the 
true  Christian  Church.  The  abandoning  of  Christian  Israel  by 
all  monarchies  leaves  the  only  alternative  of  freedom.  But  the 
great  destroyer  of  the  true  Christian  Church  has  been  the 
papal  power,  which  is  called  in  Revelations  "the  beast; "  call- 
ed by  St.  Paul  "that  man  of  sin,  the  son  of  perdition,  who,"  he 
says,  "  opposeth  and  exalteth  himself  above  all  that  is  called 
God  or  that  is  worshiped,  so  that  he,  as  God,  sitteth  in  the 
temple  of  God,  showing  himself  that  he  is  God."  And  since 
he  has  arrogated  to  himself  infallibility,  how  completely  he 
fulfills  these  predictions  of  him.  Now,  the  prophecy  we  are 
considering,  I  believe  to  be  a  promise  that  Christian  Israel 
shall  be  freed  from  this  element  so  hostile  to  civil  and  religious 
liberty.  Now  there  are  two  ways  in  which  this  may  be  brought 
about.  One  is  by  war  and  bloodshed,  and  the  other  is  by  their 
becoming  Americanized  by  being  brought  in  contact  with  our 
systems  of  enlightenment,  our  public  schools,  our  teaching  of 
pure  Gospel  doctrines,  and  our  free  institutions.  Some  fear 
the  former;  I  do  not.  I  believe  it  will  be  brought  about  in  the 
last  mentioned  way.  God  does  not  save  people  by  churches 
and  societies  and  corporate  bodies,  but  individually.  Human 
salvation  is  an  individual  concernment;  hence  there  are  many 
good  people  in  the  Romish  Church,  and  thousands  are  being 
saved  out  of  it  constantly;  and  no  class  of  people,  however 
deep  they  may  be  sunk  in  ignorance  and  superstition,  can  be 
brought  in  contact  with  our  systems  of  enlightenment  and  free 
institutions,  without  coming  up  out  of  the  wilderness.  And 
this  is  the  reason  why  some,  who  want  to  keep  the  masses  in 
subjection  to  them,  and  consequently  try  to  keep  them  in 
ignorance,  are  so  hostile  to  our  public  school  system  and  free 
institutions  in  general. 


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We  are  aware  that  great  efforts  are  put  forth,  and  Cardinals  are 
sent  over,  but  we  will  enlighten  their  masses,  Americanize  and 
Christianize  them,  and  make  good  subjects  of  Christian  Israel 
of  them.  Some  of  their  leaders  and  some  few  bigoted  mem- 
bers, who  refuse  to  advance  with  progressive  America  (or  Is- 
rael), will  finally  leave  our  Israel  of  their  own  accord,  as  a  soil 
not  congenial  to  the  growth  of  their  principles.  Fear  not,  my 
American  citizens;  fear  not  the  bloody  inquisition,  nor  the 
power  of  the  beast  and  the  dragon,  in  any  form,  for  the  promise 
has  gone  forth  from  Jehovah,  "  thy  destroyers  shall  go  forth  of 
thee." 

Again,  Isaiah  xxxiii.  20:  "  Thine  eyes  shall  see  Jerusalem 
a  quiet  habitation,  a  tabernacle  that  shall  not  be  taken  down; 
but  there  the  glorious  Lord  shall  be  unto  us  a  place  of  broad 
rivers  and  streams,  wherein  shall  go  no  galley  with  oars, 
neither  shall  gallant  ships  pass  thereby."  The  term  Jerusalem 
is  used  as  often  as  the  term  Israel  to  designate  God's  nation- 
ality. It  is  a  circumstance  to  be  noted,  that  whenever  the 
Prophets  speak  of  the  restoration  of  Israel,  they  always  express 
in  some  form  its  peace  and  permanency.  Here  it  is  expressed 
in  the  sentence,  "  Thine  eyes  shall  see  Jerusalem  a  quiet  habi- 
tation, a  tabernacle  that  shall  not  be  taken  down."  "  A  place 
of  broad  rivers  and  streams,"  implies  a  land  of  great  pros- 
perity and  peace.  Mr.  Baldwin  says:  "It  is  common  in 
Scripture  to  embody  a  promise  or  threat  in  terms  figurative, 
which,  when  taken  literally,  designate  the  very  agencies  by 
which  the  threat  or  promise  is  realized.  Sword  and  fire  may 
symbolize  Avar,  or  rain  may  represent  plenty,  yet  each  is  an 
essential  agent  in  the  realization.  So,  broad  rivers  and  streams 
may  symbolize  vast  inland  prosperity,  and  yet  are  essential 
means  in  effecting  it,  and  may,  therefore,  be  taken  in  a  literal 
as  well  as  figurative  sense."  "  Galley  "  and  "  gallant  ship  " 
represent  the  greater  and  smaller  classes  of  war  vessels.  Their 
presence  would  indicate  the  vassalage  of  Jerusalem  to  foreign- 


IN    THE    RESTORATION.  23 

ers;  their  absence,  therefore,  declares  Israel's  independence. 
Vast  inland  prosperity,  afforded  by  broad  rivers  and  streams, 
a  glorious  independence  of  all  nations,  are  great  features  of 
Christian  Israel  and  of  the  American  people. 

Daniel  says:  "  Unto  2300  days,  then  shall  the  sanctuary  be 
cleansed.  It  shall  be  for  a  time,  times  and  a  half,  and  when 
he  shall  have  accomplished,  to  scatter  the  power  of  the  holy 
people,  all  these  things  shall  be  finished.  From  the  time  the 
daily  sacrifice  shall  be  taken  away,  there  shall  be  1290  days." 
These  texts  give  each  the  length  of  Israel's  desohition.  Their 
starting  point  is  at  the  cessation  of  the  daily  sacrifice  on  the 
189th  day  of  the  year  68  A.  D.  Dr.  Baldwin  shows  con- 
clusively that  their  ending  is  on  July  4th,  1776.  On  that  day 
a  nation  was  born. 


CHAPTER  II. 

We  propose  in  this  chapter  to  examine  Nebuchadnezzar's 
celebrated  vision  of  the  great  monarchy  image.  This  vision 
was  given  605  years  B.  C,  or  in  the  year  of  the  world  3401. 
This  prophecy  contains  a  history  of  the  world  from  that  period 
to  the  millennium.  It  is  recorded  in  Dan.  II.  and  reads  as  fol- 
lows: "Thou,  0  king,  sawest,  and  behold  a  great  image. 
This  great  image,  whose  brightness  was  excellent,  stood  be- 
fore thee;  and  the  form  thereof  was  terrible."  "This  image's 
head  was  of  fine  gold,  his  breast  and  his  arms  of  silver,  nis 
belly  and  his  thighs  of  brass."  "  His  legs  of  iron,  his  feet  part 
of  iron  and  part  of  clay."  "Thou  sawest  till  that  a  stone 
was  cut  without  hands,  which  smote  the  image  upon  his  feet 
that  were  of  iron  and  clay,  and  brake  them  in  pieces."  '"'Then 
was  the  iron,  the  clay,  the  brass,  the  silver,  and  the  gold,  broken 
to  pieces 'together,  and  became  like  the  chaff  of  the  summer 


24  THE    UNITED    STATES 


threshing-floors;  and  the  wind  carried  them  away,  that  no  place 
was  found  for  them:  and  the  stone  that  smote  the  image  be- 
came a  great  mountain,  and  filled  the  whole  earth."  This  im- 
age is  the  embodiment  of  all  the  great  monarchial  governments 
that  were  ever  to  exist,  for  so  the  Prophet  affirms.  Now  you 
will  observe  that  this  image  expresses  chronology  from  the  head 
downward,  and  as  the  Prophet  gives  the  first  one,  there  is  no 
trouble  in  recognizing  each  successive  kingdom  as  they  arise, 
for  they  arise  in  chronological  order,  and  occupy  the  same  ter- 
ritory. "  This  image's  head  was  of  fine  gold,"  and  the  Prophet 
Fays:  '''  Thou  art  this  head  of  gold. ^^  Here  the  first  kingdom  is 
expressly  stated  by  the  Prophet  to  be  the  Babylonian  empire. 
He  says  this  empire  embraced  the  whole  earth,  "  wheresoever 
the  children  of  men  dwell,  the  beasts  of  the  field,"  etc.,  God 
"  hath  made  thee  ruler  over  them  all,"  implies  universal  do- 
minion. Its  capital  was  in  Asia.  It  subdued  a  portion  of 
Africa.  Carried  its  conquests  into  Europe  as  far  as  Spain.  It 
was  not  literally  universal,  but  according  to  Daniel's  interpre- 
tation, it  was  sufficiently  so  to  answer  the  purposes  of  prophecy. 
Again,  "This  image's  head  was  of  fine  gold,  his  breast  and  his 
arms  of  silver."  Now  Daniel  says,  "Thou  art  this  head  of 
gold,  and  after  thee  shall  arise  another  kingdom  inferior  to 
thee."  The  first  kingdom  being  given,  and  the  next  following 
Ml  chronological  order,  and  was  to  supply  the  place  of  the  other, 
and  occupy  the  same  territory,  it  is  easy  to  discover  the  name 
of  the  second  as  soon  as  it  made  its  appearance.  Media  and 
I'ersia  were  originally  provinces  of  the  Assyrian  empire,  and  in 
[he  day  of  Cyrus  they  were  unite!  in  one  monarchy,  and  over- 
turned the  Babylonian  empire,  and  of  course  this  was  the  second 
empire  intended  by  Daniel,  since  it  removed  the  first  and  raised 
iiself  upon  its  ruins.  Hence  the  "  Medo-Persian  "  empire  was 
the  second,  or  silver  empire. 

The  Prophet  says,  the   "Medo-Persian"  empire  was  to   be 
inferior  to  the  first,  which  history  corro' o  ^tiS.     It   was  in- 


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ferior,  both  in  extent  of  empire  and  morally.  We  will  not 
spend  much  time  identifying  the  four  kingdoms  of  monarchy, 
they  are  so  very  easy  to  identify,  and  all  modern  writers  on  the 
Prophecies,  as  far  as  we  are  acquainted,  agree  as  to  these  four 
empires.  The  third  kingdom  is  that  represented  by  the  brass: 
The  interpretation  says,  "Thou  art  this  head  of  gold,  and 
after  thee  shall  arise  another  kingdom  inferior  to  thee,  and  an- 
other third  kingdom  of  brass,  which  shall  bear  rule  over  all  the 
earth."  Alexander  the  Great  subverted  the  Persian  empire 
and  founded  the  Macedonian  on  its  ruins.  So  the  third  king- 
dom that  appeared  in  chronological  order  from  the  Babylonian 
was  the  Macedonian.  It  will  be  observed  that  no  two  of  these 
kingdoms  coidd  exist  at  one  and  the  same  time,  for  each  one 
was  to  be  universal,  hence  had  to  occupy  the  same  territory. 
So  each  successor  was,  therefore,  compelled  to  overthrow  its 
predecessor  to  make  room  for  itself.  The  character  of  this 
empire  was  symbolized  by  the  brass.  Bishop  Newton  says? 
"  the  Macedonian  empire  was  fitly  represented  by  brass,  for 
the  Greeks  were  famous  for  their  brazen  armor,  their  usual 
epithet  being,  '  The  Brazen-coated  Greeks.' "  But  we  think 
more  important  qualities  were  intended  by  the  metal.  Dr. 
Baldwin  says,  "the  gold  of  the  head  indicated  the  refined 
character,  splendor  and  value  of  the  Babylonian  empire;  and 
the  silver,  the  inferior  value  and  splendor  of  the  Persian  power; 
the  brass,  being  baser  yet  stronger  than  gold  or  silver,  may  in- 
dicate a  baser  moral  character  of  government,  but  of  greater 
energies  and  capabilities  in  war."  Again,  the  third  kingdom 
was  to  bear  rule  over  all  the  earth.  The  term  "  all  the  earth  " 
has  various  significations  in  the  scriptures.  It  generally  means 
the  civilized  world,  and  this  empire  comprised  "all  the  earth  " 
as  extensively  as  the  Babylonian,  and  Daniel  says,  that  was 
.sufficiently  universal  to  answer  the  prophecy.  It  is  said  that 
Alexander's  empire  comprehended  Europe,  Asia  and  Africa  as 
largely  as  any  empire  ever  did,  except  the   Roman,  and  that 


26  THE    UNITED    STATES 


was  subsequent.  It  is  related  of  Alexander  that  after  he  had 
subverted  the  Medo-Persian  empire,  he  stood  upon  the  shore  of 
the  Indian  ocean  and  wept  that  there  were  no  more  to  conquer. 
It  was  doubtless  at  this  time  in  his  history  that  he  gave  com- 
mand that  he  should  be  called  "  king  of  the  world."  Alexan- 
der conquered  in  obedience  to  his  unbounded  ambition,  not 
knowing  that  he  was  putting  in  a  link  in  prophecy  when  he 
did  it.  Again,  the  later  existence  of  the  third  kingdom  was  to 
be  marked  by  a  division  into  two  branches;  this  is  indicated 
by  the  brass  extending  from  the  body  into  the  limbs.  Now,  it 
is  a  well  known  fact  in  history,  that  after  Alexander's  death 
the  Macedonian  empire  was  divided  among  his  four  officers, 
Cassander,  Lysymachus,  Ptolemy,  Seleucus.  But  these  were 
soon  reduced  to  two,  Legidse  and  Seleucidse  reigning  in  Syria 
and  Egypt. 

Bishop  Newton  says:  "Their  kingdom  was  no  more  a 
different  kingdom  than  the  parts  differ  from  the  whole.  It 
was  the  same  government  si  11  continued.  They  who  gov- 
erned were  still  Macedonians.  The  metal  was  the  same,  and 
the  nation  was  the  same.  Nor  is  the  same  nation  ever  repre- 
sented by  different  nutals,  but  the  different  metals  always 
signify  different  nations.  All  ancient  authors  speak  of  the 
kingdom  of  Alexander  and  his  successors  as  cne  ar.d  the  same 
kingdom.  The  thing  is  implied  in  the  very  name  by  which 
they  are  called,  the  successors  of  Alexander.  But  perhaps  we 
have  spent  time  enough  on  this  kingdom  to  identify  it  as  the 
Macedonian. 

We  come  now  to  the  fourth — the  iron  kingdom,  or  Roman 
empire.  Interpretation:  "  And  the  fourth  kingdom  shall  be 
strong  as  iron;  forasmuch  as  iron  Lie  keth,  all  theso  shall  it 
break  in  pieces  and  bruise,  aid  wiiereas  thou  . .  .vest  the 
feet  and  toes,  part  of  potters'  clay  and  part  of  iron,  the 
kingdom  shall  be  divided.  But  there  shall  be  in  it  of  the 
strength  of  the  iron,   forasmuch  as  thou  sawest  the  iron  mixed 


IN   THE    KES'l  ORATION. 


with  miry  clay.  And  as  the  toes  of  the  feet  were  part  of  iro  i 
and  part  of  clay,  so  the  kingdom  shall  be  partly  strong  ;>  • 
partly  broken.  And  whereas  thou  sawest  i:oi  mixea  with 
clay,  THEY  shall  mingle  themselves  with  the  seed  of  men. 
But  they  shall  not  cleave  one  to  another,  even  as  iron  is  no 
mixed  with  clay.  Thou  sawest  till  that  a  stone  was  cut  ou 
without  hands,  which  smote  the  image  upon  his  feet^  that  were 
of  iron  and  clay,  and  brake  them  in  pieces."  This  kingdom  i,- 
represented  by  the  symbol  as  existing  in  three  distinct  forms. 
The  first  form  is  that  of  a  unit,  represented  by  the  iron  alone. 
"  His  legs  were  of  iron."  It  was,  you  observe,  purely  an  iron 
kingdom  for  a  period  of  time.  As  each  metal  was  a  little 
stronger  than  the  preceding  one,  as  you  come  down  the  image 
in  chronological  order,  showing  the  power  of  each  kingdom  to 
subvert  its  predecessor,  so  it  is  expressly  state!  that  "the 
fourth  kingdom  shall  be  stiong  as  iron,  forasmuch  as  iron 
breaketh,  all  these  [kingdoms  or  metals]  shall  it  break  in 
pieces  and  bruise."  One  writer  says:  "  Kome  has  the  best 
claim  to  this  iron  character  of  any  nation  that  ever  existed; 
whether  consolidated  or  in  fragments,  it  has  wielded  greater 
power  and  commanded  a  larger  measure  of  influence,  bee  i 
more  resistless  in  war  and  endured  more  lastingly,  than  any 
other  empire  whatever.  It  was  a  vast  kingd*  m  of  warr'  r  , 
and  that,  too,  for  ages.  And  Mars  was  its  tutelary  deity.  ilS 
code  of  jurisprudence  also  have  yielded  a  commanding  in- 
fluence in  the  earth  for  near  two  thousand  years.  As  iron  is 
the  strongest  of  metals,  so  Rome  has  been  the  strongest  of  all 
nations."  The  fourth  kingdom  was  to  crush  out  all  other  na- 
tions. The  Roman  empire  comprehended  all  of  the  civilized 
world  and  much  of  the  barbarous.  The  three  eastern  conti. 
nents  were  within  it,  or  tributary  to  it. 

In  our  Saviour's  time  the  term  Rome  and  the  whole  earth 
were  used  as  synonymous  terms.  St.  Luke  says,  when  our 
Saviour  was  born  a  decree  had  gone  forth  from  Caesar  x\ugustus 


28  THE    UNITED    STATES 

that  "  all  the  world  should  be  taxed."  Rome  existed  as  an 
iron  unit  down  to  the  days  of  Theodosius,  or  for  a  thousand 
years.  Now,  we  come  to  the  second  form  in  which  this  king- 
dom existed.  Now,  you  will  observe,  that  the  composition  or 
material  that  symbolized  each  kingdom,  symbolized  its  politi- 
cal character.  So  with  this  last  kingdom,  after  it  existed 
purely  an  iron  kingdom  for  a  while,  another  element,  another 
material  comes  in  with  the  iron.  Of  all  the  expositors,  but 
one  has  treated  with  any  critical  attention  the  coming  in  of  the 
clay.  By  this  it  is  evident  that  the  union  of  Church  and  State 
is  intended.  That  the  clay  symbolizes  a  class  of  people,  the 
same  as  the  metals,  not  only  stands  to  reason,  but  is  put  be- 
yond a  doubt  by  the  Prophet's  own  interpretation.  He  says,  in 
referring  to  the  clay,  "  they  " — mark  you,  he  uses  the  pronoun 
of  multitude,  "THEY,"  referring  to  people.  "They  shall 
mingle  with  the  seed  of  men."  By  the  expression,  "  seed  of 
m  n/'  is  implied  men  of  the  world,  or  political  world.  A  simi- 
lar expression  is  found  in  the  VI  chap.  2d  verse  of  Genesis, 
where  it  means  the  same.  Again,  as  the  iron  unquestionably 
represented  the  political  character  of  the  empire  before  the 
clay  came  in  with  the  iron  and  mixes  with  it  in  about  equal 
proportions,  and  as  this  class  of  men  represented  by  the  clay, 
and  designated  by  the  pronoun  "  they,^^  are  said  by  the 
Prophets  to  "  mingle  themselves  with  that  class  represented  by 
the  iron,  they  must  of  necessity  conjointly  represent  the  po- 
litical character  of  the  empire  after  this  union.  And  the 
Prophet  also  says  that  these  two  classes  of  men  though  united 
in  the  government,  "  shall  not  cleave  one  to  another  even  as 
iron  is  not  mixed  [chemically]  with  clay."  And  as  to  the 
peace  and  harmony  of  this  incestuous  union  of  Church  and 
State,  I  will  refer  you  to  all  past  history.  .  Dr.  Baldwin  has 
very  well  said:  "As  the  clay  is  a  base  material,  so  the 
Christian  Church,  by  this  union  with  the  State,  has  been 
grosslv  corrupted,  and  they  who  mingled  themselves  with  the 


IN    THE    KESTORATION. 


seed  of  men  have  become  baser  than  the  iron  of  the  world.  As 
the  clay  and  iron  were  not  to  cleave  closely  to  each  other,  so 
has  been  this  debased  alloy  of  Church  and  State.  The  exact 
relationship  of  the  Church  to  the  State  has  never  been  generally 
agreed  upon,  and  there  has  been  through  past  ages  a  constant 
struggle  between  them  for  political  supremacy,  the  iron  gene- 
rally prevailing  over  the  clay.  Popes  have  arrogated  suprem- 
acy, and  absolved  subjects  from  allegiance  to  kings  and 
princes;  but  kings  and  princes  have  generally  carried  the  day. 
So,  that  while  they  have  remained  and  do  remain  combined, 
they  have  never  been  united,  even  "  as  iron  is  not  [chemically] 
united  or  mixed  with  clay."  They  have  had  conflicting  in- 
terests, and,  from  the  nature  of  the  case,  they  always  will  have. 
Nothing  can  exceed  the  accuracy  of  the  brief  description  the 
Prophet  gives  of  Church  and  State  union  in  the  Roman  empire 
since  it  institution.  Nothing,  in  fact,  could  be  more  perfect. 
The  Church,  with  her  magical  cross,  has  awed  kings  and 
princes,  rulers  and  people,  into  submission.  The  Pope  has 
brought  kings  to  his  feet,  and  powerful  emperors  have  spent 
frosty  nights  in  penance  upon  his  door-step.  While  kings  and 
emperors  in  return,  rising  from  their  magic  spell,  as  from  the 
deep  of  slumber,  have,  while  gratifying  their  own  ambition, 
thought  it  best  to  curb  the  ambition  of  the  Pope,  and  with  the 
sword  have — in  the  language  of  the  great  Napoleon — "brought 
his  highness  to  terms."  While  God  intends  that  a  pure  and  en- 
lightened religion,  or  Christianity,  shall  be  the  mother  of  a  per- 
fect civil  government  in  the  earth.  He  evidently  does  not  intend 
the  union  of  Church  and  State.  That  has  ever  been  fruitful  of 
the  greatest  evil.  While  carnal  Israel,  or  the  Jewish  Church, 
reaped  some  advantages  by  her  bondage  in  Egypt  and  connec- 
tion with  Pharoah's  throne,  drawing  her  supplies  from  the  gov- 
ernment, was  preserved  from  famine,  multiplied  in  numbers, 
etc.  So  spiritual  Israel,  or  the  Christian  Church  gained  some 
advantage  at  first,  in  going  into  spiritual  bondage,  by  being 


THE    UNITED    STATES 


connected  with  the  throne  of  the  Roman  empire.  But  since 
that  day,  blood  and  crime  has  marked  her  way  in  the  earth. 
Aside  from  the  terrible  wars  she  has  engendered,  the  lands  she 
has  desolated,  the  homes  she  has  saddened,  it  is  estimated  that 
50,000,000  souls  have  lost  their  lives  by  her  union  with  the 
State. 

I  have  before  stated,  and  I  hope  to  show  beyond  a  doubt, 
before  I  get  through  with  this  present  vision  of  Daniel.  That 
when  a  great  and  mighty  nation  suddenly  arose  on  the  4th  day 
of  July,  1776,  civil  and  religious  liberty  first  dawned  upon  the 
world,  by  the  complete  and  eternal  divorcement  of  Church  and 
State.     . 

Up  to  that  time  we  read  of  the  horrid  inquisitions,  auto- 
defe,  bloody  massacres.  But  since  that  day  that  hellish  trio, 
Pope,  Pagan  and  Despot,  with  their  concommitants,  the  rack, 
tbe  wheel,  the  stake  and  the  guillotine,  have  all  felt  that  at  our 
dawn,  humanity  arose,  and  with  that  humanity,  a  civil  arm 
that  will  not  brook  such  horrid  means  to  force  the  impenetrable 
entrenchments  of  the  human  soul;  to  bind  down  the  unconquer- 
able human  conscience;  to  put  out  the  unquenchable  flame  that 
Durns  in  the  human  heart  for  oivil  and  religious  liberty. 

We  have  shown  these  kingdoms  to  be  the  Babylonian,  Medo- 
'  ersian,  Macedonian  and  Roman  We  have  seen  that  the  pro- 
'  iive  histor'.an  a^Tees  with  revelation  in  pointing  out  these  king- 
doms. Prophecy  is  history  pre-written,  hence,  the  true  Prophet 
c  d  the  correct  historian  must  agree.  Bishop  Newton  says: 
'All  ancient  writers,  both  Jewish  and  Christian,  agree  with 
Jerome  in  explaining  the  fourth  kingdom  to  be  the  Roman." 
Mr.  Mede  says:  "  The  Roman  empire,  to  be  the  fourth  kingdom 
of  Daniel,  was  believed  by  the  Church  of  Israel,  both  before  and 
in  our  Saviour's  time;  received  by  the  disciples  of  the  Apostles 
And  the  whole  Christian  Church,  for  the  first  three  hundred 
years,  without  any  Jcnown*  contradictions.  And  I  confess,  hav- 
.  ng  so  good  ground  in  Scripture,  it  is  with  me  "  Tantvm  non  est 


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articulus  fidei,^^  little  less  than  an  article  of  faith.  ISow,  the 
third  form,  or  period,  of  this  kingdom  was  the  broken  one 
represented  by  the  ten  toes.  Mark,  these  two  things  are 
affirmed  of  this  kingdom:  It  was  to  be  divided  and  then 
broken.  It  was  to  be  divided  into  Church  and  State  (clay  and 
iron)  after  continuing  for  a  period;  it  was  to  be  broken  up  into 
smaller  kingdoms,  and  its  political  character  of  clay  and  iron 
was  to  continue  in  its  broken  state,  the  clay  continues  with  the 
iron  down  into  the  toes.  The  Roman  empire  was  broken  to 
pieces  by  the  inroads  of  the  Germans,  Goths,  Vandals  and 
Huns,  and  ten  kingdoms  in  less  than  two  hundred  years  made 
their  appearance.  These  ten  were  simply  a  representative 
number.  There  were  to  be  many  more  than  these  during  its 
broken  period.  Rome  is  still  in  its  broken  state,  characterized 
still  by  the  union  of  Church  and  State  (clay  and  iron.)  Now, 
there  is  this  difference  between  the  Prophet  and  the  Historian 
— the  Prophet  looks  upon  the  Roman  empire  as  still  existing 
in  its  broken  state;  the  Historian,  as  having  passed  away,  and 
its  place  supplied  by  smaller  ones.  Now,  the  Prophet  inti- 
mates that  it  is  to  be  reunited  or  consolidated  again.  This 
must  be  his  meaning,  for  he  says,  the  stone,  or  the  fifth  king- 
dom, smote  the  image  on  the  feet,  which  must  have  been  after 
it  had  existed  for  a  period  in  that  state  represented  by  the 
toes. 

If  I  understand  Dr.  Baldwin,  he  thinks  it  is  to  be  restored  as  it 
was  before.  I  do  not  think  so.  I  think  by  this  is  meant  the 
confederation  of  all  these  monarchies,  preparatory  to  the  great 
blow  to  be  struck  against  republicanism,  or,  as  it  is  called  in 
prophecy,  the  great  battle  of  "  Armageddon^^''  sybolized  here  by 
the  stone  kingdom,  of  which  we  purpose  to  speak  in  the  next 
chapter. 

Let  us  mark  this  one  particular,  as  we  pass  from  tne  time 
these  kingdoms  began  to  rise,  the  march  of  empire  has  been 
steadily  westward.     We  will  see  when  we  come  to  treat  of  the 


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next,  the  fifth  or  stone  kingdom,  that  "  the  star  of  empire  "  has 
not  changed  her  course,  but  that 

"  Westward  the  course  of  empire  takes  its  way, 
The  first  four  acts  already  passed. 
The  fifth  shall  close  the  drama  with  the  day, 
Time's  noblest  empire  is  its  last." 


CHAPTER  III. 


We  will  all  agree,  doubtless,  in  the  beginning  of  this  investi- 
gation, upon  this  one  fact:  That  this  fifth  kingdom  which  the 
vision  presents,  and  which  Daniel  interprets,  is  no  other,  and 
can  be  no  other,  than  the  restoration  of  Israel  to  nationality. 
For  it  is  here  doing  precisely  the  work  that  is  always  predicted 
of  Israel  restored;  that  is,  breaking  in  pieces  and  subduing 
monarchy,  or,  in  the  variable  language  of  the  Prophets,  subdu- 
ing all  the  kingdoms  of  the  world. 

Again,  it  occupies  the  same  territory  that  Israel  was  to  oc- 
cupy, and  that  is  the  whole  entire  world,  and  also  its  endless 
duration,  which  is  here  expressed  in  that  same  language  so 
often  used  by  the  Prophets  "for  ever  and  ever."  You  must 
have  observed  all  along,  how  careful  the  Prophets  are  in  speak- 
ing of  Christian  Israel's  nationality,  to  not  leave  the  subject 
without  speaking  of  its  universality  and  perpetuity.  You  can 
invariably  detect  that  the  Prophets  are  speaking  of  this  nation- 
ality by  these  two  features.  Something  that  cannot  be  said — 
of  course — of  any  other  nation  that  may  ever  arise;  for  it  com- 
prises the  whole  world  and  shall  endure  ''  forever."  This  king- 
dom, as  you  are  aware,  we  claim  to  be  the  United  States  of 
America. 


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You  may  say  we  are  treading  a  new  path  for  trul;h.  Nofc 
wholly  so.  The  late  president  of  the  "Soule  Female  College,'' 
a  man  of  no  mean  talent,  held  the  same  views  that  we  do.  We 
are  aware  of  the  difficulties  and  disadvantages  under  which  we 
labor  in  expounding  prophecy.  But,  the  difficulties  are  not  in 
the  prophecies,  especially  those  that  have  been  unsealed  to  man 
by  a  partial  fulfillment.  But  they  lie  in  the  preconceived  opin- 
ions of  men  upon  the  subject,  and  the  firm  and  settled  error  of 
those  opinions,  and  the  determined  hostility  to  any  argument 
that  would  overthrow  or  unsettle  them.  Dr.  Whedon,  the 
commentator  says,  "  every  man  is  in  an  exegetical  fix,"  the 
difficulty  is,  to  get  him  out  of  that  fix,  and  get  new  and  correct 
opinions  into  him. 

A  celebrated  educator  has  said,  "it  is  harder  to  unlearn  what 
we  have  learned  wrong  than  to  learn  correctly."  One  author 
says,  "  some  persons  have  never  fully  formed  an  opinion  on  the 
subject;  while  others  have  satisfied  themselves  that  some  one 
has  made  a  great  mistake  in  explaining  prophecy  somehow, 
and  are  consequently  distrustful  of  the  ability  of  any  man  to 
throw  any  new  light  upon  the  subject.  Others  and  of  the 
smaller  class,  are  ever  ready  fairly  to  examine  all  honorable 
argument  and  to  decide  justly.  And  as  for  ourselves,  we  can  truly 
say,  we  had  rather,  by  far,  try  to  make  a  wide-awake,  progressive 
infidel  see  these  sublime  truths,  than  some  who  have  been 
rocked  in  the  cradle  of  Christianity,  for  they  will  tell  you  that 
the  old  elder  who  baptized  their  great  grand-father,  and 
preached  to  four  generations  down  from  him,  never  interpreted 
Scripture  that  way.  And  you  might  as  well  try  to  shake  Mt. 
Minsi  down  into  a  plain,  as  to  enrich  their  minds  with  any  new 
discoveries  in  Scripture. 

But  to  return;  please  pardon  this  digression.  We  will  take 
up  the  points  which  are  given  to  identify  this  kingdom. 

1st.  The  time  of  its  rise.  This  is  expressed  and  implied  in  the 
positive  words  of  the  vision  and  in  the  interpretation,  also,  in 


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the  time  when  the  destruction  of  the  image  was  to  take  place. 
The  Prophet  says:  "Thou  sawest  till  that  a  stone  was  cut  out 
without  hands."  Now,  mark  closely  the  following  fact:  "  It 
is  certain  that  the  image  was  a  chronological  one  and  repre- 
sented successive  kingdoms,  from  the  Babylonian  down  to  tlie 
broken  state  of  the  Roman  empire  represented  by  toes  of  iron 
and  clay.  It  is  certain  that  he  saw  the  history  of  the  world 
down  to  the  subversion  of  the  Roman  empire.  It  is  certain 
that  he  saw  a  period  of  time  extending  from  his  day  down  to 
the  fifth  century.  It  is  certain  that  after  he  had  seen  the  whole 
era  of  the  image  down  to  the  broken  stages  of  Rome,  that  he 
continued  to  look  prospectively  into  the  future.  It  is  certain 
that  he  did  not  see  the  empire  of  the  stone  until  he  had  seen 
<he  whole  history  of  the  world  from  his  own  days  to  those  of 
the  broken  empire.  A^or  did  he  see  it  then,  for  it  is  certain  that 
he  saw  it  by  looking  beyond  the  period  of  the  broken  state  of 
Rome,  and  that  he  did  not  see  it  by  any  retrospective  view. 
That  little  episode  thrown  in  there,  "  thou  sawest  till,^'  has  an 
expressiveness  of  futurity  in  it  absolutely,  as  well  as  relatively. 
The  word  till,  says  Mr.  Webster,  signifies  ''to  the  time  of,  or, 
to  the  time,  as,  I  will  wait  till  next  week,  or,  occupy  till  I 
come."  Now,  the  Prophet  expressly  told  the  King,  that  after 
he  had  seea  the  whole  prophetic  and  chronological  image, 
down  to  the  toes  or  broken  state,  that  he  then  continued  to  look 
forward,  and  that  in  looking  his  attention  was  arrested  by  the 
sight  of  a  stone  cut  out  of  the  mountains  without  hands.  "  This 
view  is  further  confirmed,  as  well  as  illustrated,  by  a  parallel 
and  fac-simile  passage  found  in  Daniel's  vision  of  the  very 
same  events.  After  Daniel  saw  the  broken  state  of  the  fourth 
kingdom,  he  says,  he  continued  to  look  into  the  future,  and 
then  he  uses  the  same  style  of  language,"  "  I  beheld  till  the 
thrones  were  cast  down."  This  expression  and  the  one  before 
us,  "thou  sawest  tilV^  the  stone  kingdom  destroyed  monarchy, 
synchronize  and  relate  to  the  same  events.     The  Prophet's  own 


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interpretation  of  the  vision  drives  us  to  the  same  conclusio  ' 
irresistibly.  He  says:  "In  the  days  of  these  kings  shall  the 
God  of  heaven  set  up  a  kingdom,"  etc.  We  have  authorit  - 
that  the  Hebrew  original  "  beyomahon  "  signified  literally,  "  i  i 
their  days."  These  plural  terms  show  us  plainly  that  it  was 
after  the  broken  state  of  Rome,  after  the  ten  representativ  • 
kingdoms  had  arisen.  Some  refer  these  words  to  the  four  pre 
ceding  kingdoms.  But  this  must,  of  necessity,  be  incorrect 
The  fifth  kingdom  could  smite  the  Babylonish  king,  the  Per- 
sian, the  Macedonian  and  the  Roman,  but  it  could  not  smite 
kings  in  this  case,  for  they  reigned  centuries  apart;  but  the 
Prophet  is  speaking  of  a  number  of  kingdoms  existing  simul- 
taneously. He  gives  us  the  history  of  the  image  chronologically 
down  to  the  toe  or  broken  period,  when  there  are  several  kings 
reigning  at  the  same  time,  and  then  he  says:  "  In  the  days  of 
these  kings,"  etc.  Again,  in  speaking  of  the  power  of  the  fifth 
kingdom,  he  says:  "It  shall  brake  in  pieces  and  consume  all 
these  kingdoms.^^  Now,  I  ask  you  what  is  plainer  than  this  fact, 
that  if  this  fifth  kingdom  had  arisen  in  the  days  of  Rome,  be- 
fore it  wap  broken  into  a  plurality  of  kingdoms,  that  it  must 
have  been  set  up  in  the  days  of  one  king,  or  kingdom,  and  not 
''in  their  days  of  these  kings,"  as  the  text  says  it  should  be. 
Again,  it  is  a  principle  of  lo^ic  that  "  relative  words  should  be 
referred  to  the  nearest,  rather  than  to  a  remote,  antecedent," 
Ik  nee  we  cannot,  therefore,  without  a  palpable  violation  of  a 
plain,  logical  rule,  make  the  terms  in  "  their  days  and  of  those 
kings,"  refer  to  the  great  period  of  the  whole  four  kingdoms. 

2d.  We  come  now  to  the  origin  of  the  stone  kingdom.  No 
one  but  Dr.  Baldwin  ever  interpreted  one  vastly  important 
symbol,  which  we  now  bring  forward.  It  is  perfectly  astonish- 
ing that  all  writers  on  the  Prophecies,  prior  to  Mr.  Baldwin, 
should  have  passed  by  unnoticed  this  most  important  of  all  the 
symbols.  An(J  that  is  the  mountain  origin  of  the  stone  king- 
dom.    The  vision  says:     "Thou  sawest  till  a  stone  was  cut 


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out  without  hands."  Here  it  is  very  plain  that  the  stone  was 
inherent  in  something ,  otherwise  it  would  not  have  been  "  cut 
out."  The  Prophet's  interpretation  says  it  was  "  cut  out  of  the 
mountain."  As  the  stone  symbolically  represented  a  kingdom, 
and  a  very  powerful  one  to  destroy  such  powerful  empires,  it  is 
plain  that  the  stone  kingdom  'was  derived  from  some  pre- 
existing power,  from  which  such  a  powerful  kingdom  could  be 
cut  or  formed.  Now,  it  was  cut  from  the  mountain,  and  the 
term  mountain  has  a  definite  meaning  in  the  Prophecies,  and 
always  signifies  an  organized  body  of  people  of  some  kind, 
either  political  or  ecclesiastical. 

"  Now,  the  fifth  kingdom  being  cut  out  of  a  prophetic  king- 
dom, we  must  inquire  what  kind  of  government  it  was  to  be. 
[t  was  evident,  from  the  nature  of  the  case,  that  it  was  a  king- 
dom totally  different  from  any  in  the  image  represented  by  the 
gold,  silver,  clay,  iron  or  brass.  It  is  further  clear  that  as  the 
stone  would  partake  of  the  nature  of  its  original  composition, 
that  the  mountain  would  be  opposed  in  character  to  the  king- 
doms in  the  image,  because  the  stone  kingdom  hated  and 
destroyed  the  other  kingdoms.  Now,  the  only  great  organiza- 
tion in  the  world  that  hates  corrupt  religion  and  corrupt  civil 
government  is  pure  and  free  Christianity,  and  therefore  the 
mountain  must  represent  the  true  Church  or  kingdom  of 
Christ."  Hence,  the  fifth  or  stone  kingdom  is  that  nation 
which  has  arisen  out  of  Christianity,  freed  from  Church  and 
State  union,  or  out  of  the  ''mountain  of  the  Lord's  house."  Of 
those  who  hold  that  the  stone  kingdom  is  Christianity,  I  would 
not  only  ask  such  persons  what  the  mountain  is  that  the  stone 
kingdom  is  cut  out  of,  but  I  would  inform  such  that  Christian- 
ity is  lorbidden  to  do  the  work  of  the  stone  kingdom.  To 
1  reak  in  pieces  and  consume  powerful  kingdoms  requires  a 
powerful  martial  force;  and  the  founder  of  Christianity  said: 
''Put  up  thy  sword;  he  that  taketh  the  sword,  let  him  perish 
by  the  sword,"  etc.     And  if  you  say  Christianity  did  this  by 


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working  internally ,we  shall  show  you  before  we  get  through  with 
this  subject  that  that  stone  came  from  a  distance  and  smote  it 
on  the  outside.  Mark  one  more  thing:  The  term  "cui  out  of 
the  mountain  "  does  not  imply  a  part  cut  off  from  the  moun- 
tain, as  a  stone  cut  off  from  a  cliff  or  ledge  of  rocks  composing 
a  mountain,  but  the  change  of  the  mountain  substance  into  a 
double  nature,  just  as  we  say  a  statue  is  cut  out  of  a  block  of 
marble,  or  a  vase  is  cut  out  of  alabaster.  Again,  the  stone 
kingdom  is  identified  by  its  political  character.  We  have  al- 
ready intimated,  and  it  is  plainly  seen  from  the  prophecy,  that 
this  fifth  empire  was  to  possess  a  mighty  political  strength  of 
character.  If  you  were  to  listen  to  a  man  reading  history,  and 
he  should  read  of  one  powerful  kingdom  after  another,  each 
wielding  a  powerful  martial  force,  orerthrowing  other  king- 
doms, at  a  great  expense  of  life  and  treasure;  and  all  at  once 
he  should  mention  one  doing  the  same  work,  and  he  should 
stop  and  say  to  you:  "This  is  spiritual, not  a  political,  organi- 
zation," you  would  want  to  know  what  authority  he  had  for 
that  interpretation. 

We  wish  to  quote  to  you  on  this  point  Mr.  Tillinghast,  in  full. 
He  says  the  kingdom  of  the  stone  is  a  kingdom  in  respect  of 
nature,  the  same  with  the  kingdoms  represented  by  the  great 
image,  i.  e.,  it  is  outward  as  they  are  outward,  which  appears: 

1st.  From  the  general  scope  and  drift  of  the  prophecy, 
which  runs  upon  outward  kingdoms.  All  the  first  four  king- 
doms, or  monarchies,  are  outward,  as  none  can  deny  ;  why, 
then,  the  Holy  Ghost,  in  speaking  of  the  fifth  and  last,  should 
so  vary  the  scope  as  to  glide  from  the  outward  kingdom  to  the 
inward,  ought  (besides  the  bare  say-so)  to  have  some  solid  and 
substantial  reason  brought  for  it  by  those,  whosoever  they  are, 
that  either  do  or  shall  assert  it. 

23.  Because  it  is  not  proper  to  say,  that  a  bare  spiritual 
kingdom,  considered  only  as  spiritual,  should  break  in  pieces, 
beat  to  very  chaff,  grind  to  powder  the  great  image,  i.  e.,  destroy 


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the  very  being  of  worldly  kingdoms,  which  work  is  yet,  not- 
withstanding, done  by  the  stone.  Indeed  Christ's  spiritual 
kingdom  may,  by  that  light  and  life  which  it  gives  forth,  much 
refine  and  reform  outward  kingdoms,  but  when  once  the  work 
comes  to  breaking  to  pieces,  i.  e.,  subverting  kingdoms,  razing 
their  very  foundations  and  destroying  their  very  being,  as  they 
are  the  kings  of  this  world  here,  unless  we  conceive  God  to  do 
it  by  a  miracle,  mast  we  also  conceive  some  other  hand,  besides 
a  spiritual,  to  be  put  to  the  work. 

3d.  Because  the  stone,  to  the  end  there  might  not  be  a  vacancy 
in  the  world,  comes  straightway  in  the  place  and  room  of  the 
great  image,  so  soon  as  the  same  is  totally  broken.  For  as  the 
great  image,  while  standing,  bears  rule  over  all  the  earth,  so 
the  same  being  broken,  the  stone  becomes  a  mountain,  and  fills 
the  whole  earth,  therefore  must  the  kingdom  of  the  stone  be 
such  a  kingdom,  as  was  that  of  the  great  image.  Viz.,  Outward  : 
or  otherwise,  the  coming  of  that,  in  the  place  of  the  other  now 
taken  away,  could  not  supply  the  want  of  the  other."  We 
quote  from  Baldwin: 

1st.  "  The  nature  of  the  work  to  be  accomplished  by  the  stone 
was  of  a  purely  political,  or  rather  material  character.  It  was  to 
break  up  the  four  great  monarchies,  and  utterly  anhihilate  them. 
No  monarchy  was  ever  broken  down  except  by  martial  or  politi- 
cal violence;  and  no  kingdom  was  ever  overthrown  by  another 
without  great  bloodshed.  The  vision  says,  the  fifth  king- 
dom shall  break  the  four  kingdoms  to  pieces,  and  they  should 
become  as  chaff;  the  interpretation  says,  'it  shall  break  in 
pieces  and  consume  all  these  kingdoms.^  Here  the  atone  is 
stated  to  perform  the  work  of  annihilation  of  the  political  fab- 
rics before  it,  in  two  ways:  first  by  breaking  them  to  pieces; 
and,  secondly,  by  consuming  them. 

The  term,  "breaking  to  pieces,"  must  be  understood  in  the 
same  sense  in  which  the  Prophet  uses  it  in  other  parts  of  the 
prophecy      Now,  he  said  of  the  fourth  kingdom  of  iron,  that  it 


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should  "break  in  pieces"  all  the  kingdoms  before  it.  Then,  a& 
the  Roman,  or  fourth  kingdom,  broke  in  pieces  all  the  na,tions 
before  it,  by  the  most  bloody  and  devastating  wars,  it  follows, 
that  as  the  fourth  kingdom  should  be  "broken  to  pic  ces"  by  the 
stone,  that  the  breaking  would,  in  its  case,  be  by  di  eadful  war, 
as  in  the  other  cases.  There  is  no  room  to  evade  this  conclu- 
sion without  violating  a  plain  rule  of  interpretation;  that  is,  by 
assigning  a  different  sense  to  an  author's  words  than  he  him- 
self has  given.  The  terms,  "became  chaif,"  and  "consuming," 
are  obviously  somewhat  different  in  signification  from  that  of 
"  breaking  to  pieces."  They  imply  that  the  empire  was  first 
divided  into  large  masses,  and  that  these  were  then  subjugated 
and  utterly  waated  away  by  conquest. 

St.  John,  in  describing  the  destruction  of  the  Roman  power 
in  the  last  battles,  by  the  fifth  kingdom,  says  the  beast  and 
false  phophet  were  first  taken,  and  then  the  remnant  were  slain. 
The  beast  corresponds  to  the  fourth  kingdom;  and  he  being 
taken,  coincides  with  the  breaking  up  of  the  image  into  frag- 
ments; and  the  slaying  of  the  remnant  coincides  with  the  con- 
suming process  upon  the  fragments  of  the  broken  image. 

2d.  The  breaking  of  the  image  was  by  a  sudden  stroke  of 
the  stone.  Dr.  Adam  Clark  says,  the  falling  of  the  stone  upon 
the  feet  of  the  image  was  like  the  stroke  of  a  stone  discharged 
violently  from  a  Roman  catapult.  There  was  but  one  stroke 
of  the  stone  on  the  feet.  It  was  plainly  a  swift  stroke,  and, 
therefore,  a  sudden  one;  there  was  no  protracted  effort  on  its 
part  to  break  up  monarchy;  there  was  no  repetition  of  the  blow 
by  the  stone,  for  the  image  fell  the  very  instant  its  feet  felt  the 
force  of  the  single  disrupting  blow.  The  text  says,  it  "  smote 
the  image  upon  his  feet,  which  were  of  iron  and  clay,  and 
broke  them  to  pieces;"  and  it  adds,  "then  was  the  iron, 
the  clay,  the  brass,  the  silver,  and  the  gold  broken  to  pieces 
together."  One  sudden  stroke  of  the  stone  broke  the  feet  to 
pieces,  and  then,  at  that  very  time,  for  such  is  the  meaning  of 


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the  term  then,  the  whole  material  fell  to  pieces.  The  sudden 
dashing  of  the  Roman  empire  to  pieces  by  a  single  stroke,  ab- 
solutely implies  great  and  unprecedented  political  or  martial 
power.  And,  again,  the  existence  of  the  empire  in  fragments, 
implies  that  this  state  was  produced  by  political  power;  and 
its  comminution  into  chaff  is  still  further  expressive  of  it. 

3d.  The  time  when  this  smiting  was  to  transpire,  is  further 
proof  that  the  fifth  kingdom  was  to  be  a  political  power.  The 
feet  were  to  be  broken  by  the  stone,  and  then  every  vestige  of 
Rome  was  to  disappear.  The  toes  were  not  to  be  smitten,  but 
the  feet,  the  Prophet  says.  Now,  as  the  image  was  chronological, 
the  Roman  empire  represented  by  the  toes,  was  not  simulta- 
neous with  that  state  of  it  represented  by  the  feet,  nor  could 
the  image  be  smitten  in  that  state  represented  by  the  feet  prior 
to  that  represented  by  the  toes;  for  if  it  had  been,  the  toe,  or 
broken  state,  would  never  have  appeared  at  all,  because  the 
image  was  all  to  dissolve  at  only  one  stroke  of  the  stone.  The 
only  way  to  reconcile  the  matter,  is,  by  allowing  a  reunion  of 
the  broken  empire  represented  by  the  feet  of  iron  and  clay. 
St.  John  clearly  states,  that  the  ten  kingdoms  should  agree 
together  to  give  their  power  to  the  beast,  and  that,  in  this  con- 
federacy, they  should  be  broken  by  the  fifth  empire;  he,  there- 
fore, fully  confirms  our  positions  here.  No  man  of  any  brains 
can  imagine  that  the  European  states,  when  confederated,  can 
ever  be  broken  to  pieces  by  an  extraneous  power,  unless  that 
extraneous  power  be  a  civil  government  with  martial  power. 

4th.  The  Roman  empire,  or  fourth  kingdom,  was  to  be  de- 
molished by  a  power  without  its  borders.  The  stone  was  not 
in  any  wise  attached  to  the  image;  it  was  not  generated  in  it, 
and  did  not  operate  upon  the  image  internally;  it  smote  the 
image  outside,  and  moved  toward  it  from  a  dintance.  It  was, 
therefore,  a  kingdom  that  did  not  grow  up  in  the  bounds  of  the 
iloinan  empire  at  all;  it  did  not  foment  discord  in  its  territories 
o    secretly  and  silently  work  its  ruin  by  vioral  buasioii.     On  the 


LN   THE    RESTORATION.  41 

contrary,  as  it  grew  in  strength,  Rome  grew  in  strength;  for  a? 
it  originated  in  the  broken  state  of  Rome,  and  did  not  smite  it 
till  Rome  was  reunited,  it  is  evident  that  both  grew  stronger 
simultaneously.  It  was  an  external,  foreign  power  to  Rome  or 
Europe,  and  its  country  was  not  in  the  limits  of  the  old  Roman 
empire. 

5th.  The  kingdom  of  the  mountain,  into  which  the  stone 
was  to  grow,  every  one  admits,  will  be  a  government  in  which 
everything  will  be  Christianized.  From  the  very  nature  of  the 
case,  the  civil  and  spiritual  departments  of  good  government 
will  never  be  blended.  Christ  will  ultimately  be  priest  of  the 
one  and  king  of  the  other;  but  this  does  not  imply  that  they 
will  ever  be  blended,  but  just  the  contrary.  The  millennial 
government,  or  mountain  will,  therefore,  possess  a  civil  depart- 
ment. Now,  as  the  kingdom  of  the  stone  is  simply  to  expand 
into  the  millennial  government,  it  follows  that  it  must  be  pos- 
sessed of  a  civil  department  of  government.  Those  persons 
who  fancy  a  universal  church  on  earth,  with  no  civil  code,  have 
very  crude  notions  of  the  matter,  to  say  the  least  of  it.  Mr. 
Baldwin  says:  "The  gospel  will  never  admit  of  any  such  uni- 
Vvirsal  salmagundi." 


CHAPTER  IV. 

In  the  last  chapter  we  considered  some  of  the  features  of  the 
fifth  or  stone  kingdom,  its  rise,  origin,  and  its  character  to 
some  extent.  Now,  there  is  nothing  more  evident  than  the 
fact  that  this  stone  kingdom  possessed  a  mighty  political  or 
martial  power,  for  without  it  it  could  not  have  done  the  work 
predicted  of  it.  By  the  smiting  of  the  stone  in  the  vision  is 
symbolized  the  great  battle  of  Armageddon,  spoken  of  in  Rev- 
elation 16th  chap.,  14th,  15th  and  16th  verses,  as  the  great  an^ 


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decisive  struggle  of  republicanism  with  monarchy.  Of  the 
place  and  time  and  particulars  of  this  terrible  war  we  will  try- 
to  speak  more  definitely  in  another  treatise.  But  after  the 
stone  kingdom  had  accomplished  the  mammoth  work  of  de- 
stroying all  the  political  powers  of  the  East,  it  grew  into  a 
great  mountain  (a  great  nationality),  and  filled  the  whole 
earth.  It  had  to  do  this  of  necessity,  to  supply  the  place  of 
the  others,  it  had  to  extend  its  own  form  of  government  over 
them.  The  prophet  tells  us  this  stone  kingdom  was  God's  gov- 
ernment, one  He  established,  and  we  have  already  seen  that  the 
only  government  that  God  claims  to  have  established  on  earth 
was  a  republic,  and  He  has  promised  that,  that  nation  restored 
shall  be  of  the  same  style  of  government.  It  is  apparent  to 
human  reason,  that  God's  church — that  is,  Christianity — must 
eventually  give  to  the  world,  and  the  whole  world,  a  civil  code; 
and  the  only  form  of  government  that  free  Christianity  heartily 
endorses  is  the  deinocraiic.  Now,  it  is  certain,  that  not  only 
the  work,  but  the  nature  and  power  of  the  stone  kingdom, 
proves  it  to  be  Israel  res'ored,  but  its  universality  and  perpet- 
uity puts  it  beyond  a  doubt.  But  one  kingdom  can  be  univer- 
sal and  of  endless  duration.  The  stone  after  it  became  a  grei;t 
nation,  and  filled  the  whole  earth,  was  never  to  have  an  end, 
"  never  to  be  destroyed."  All  the  political  empires  that  had 
ever  existed  before  it  had  been  destroyed  by  physical  violence, 
but  this  one  was  not  thus  to  be  moved.  The  expression  "  The 
kingdom  shall  not  be  left  to  other  people,"  implies  that  another 
people  shall  not  overcome  it;  nor  shall  it  even  pass  from  one 
dynasty  to  another.  Which  is  additional  evidence  to  my  mind 
that  it  is  democratic.  *'  The  empire  of  the  world,  as  we  have 
seen  in  considering  the  first  four  empires,  had  passed  from 
people  to  people,  but,  according  to  this  the  people  of  the  fifth 
kingdom  were  to  hold  the  scepter  of  empire  perpetually.  Other 
political  powers  were  to  be  wholly  removed,"  no  place  wa$ 
found   for   them,^*    "they   became   like   chaff  of  the  summer 


IN   THE    RESTORATION.  48 

threshing  floor,  and  the  wind  carried  them  away,"  but  this 
empire  stood  up  in  everlasting  continuance.  It  stood  on  earth: 
it  stood  where  the  Roman,  the  Grecian,  the  Persian,  and  the 
Assyrian  empires  stood,  and  there  it  stood  forever.  The  judg- 
ment and  the  resurrection,  and  the  regeneration  of  the  heavens 
and  earth  by  fire,  did  not  move  it,  it  shall  stand  and  not  be  re- 
moved, forever.  In  its  progress  of  glory,  its  territory  may  be 
cleansed  by  fire;  its  inhabitants  may  be  purified  by  the  judg- 
ment; the  angels  may  "gather  out  of  it  all  things  that  offend, 
and  them  that  do  iniquity,"  but  the  kingdom  shall  remain 
standing  where  it  was  originally  established.  It  will  be  re- 
membered, that  the  promise  of  perpetuity  to  the  stone  kingdom 
is  precisely  that  made  to  Israel  when  restored  to  nationality  in 
the  latter  day,  of  which,  it  is  said,  they  shall  never  be  removed 
but  snail  abide  for  ever  and  ever.  Again,  that  the  stone  was  a 
democratic  government,  is  seen  from  the  fact  that  it  destroyed 
all  monarchy.  In  the  first  chapter  we  remarked  that  there 
were  only  two  kinds  of  governments;  that  there  could  be  but 
two  kinds  from  the  constitution  of  man.  One  holds  that  the 
right  of  governing  does  not  exist  in  the  consent  of  the  governed. 
The  other  holds  that  there  is  no  right  of  government  except  by 
the  expressed  consent  of  the  governed.  And,  my  readers,  it 
does  not  require  the  gift  of  prophecy,  nor  the  gift  to  look  into 
prophecy,  to  see  that  these  two  principles  are  antagonistic  and 
that  one  must  supplant  the  other  in  the  earth;  you  believe,  my 
dear  reader,  that  the  democratic  principle  will  ultimately  pre- 
vail. We  afiirm,  that  God  unequivocally  promises  in  his  word, 
that  it  shall  prevail.  And  in  the  vision  which  we  are  consid- 
ering he  teaches  us  that  the  day  is  coming  when  it  shall  sweep 
monarchy  from  the  earth  at  a  single  dash.  That  little  episode 
thrown  in  here,  of  which  the  Scriptures  abound,  where  a  few 
syllables  express  volumes,  expresses  much  here.  "Then  was  the 
iron,  the  clay,  the  brass,  the  silver  and  the  gold,  broken  to 
pieces  together,  and  became  like   the   chaff"  of  the   summer 


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threshing  floors;   and  the  wind  carried  them  away,  that  no 
place  was  found  for  them." 

Now,  mark  you,  nothing  of  this  kind  was  said  when  the 
Medo-Persian  empire  subverted  the  Babylonian  or  the  Mace- 
donian subverted  the  Medo-Persian,  although  they  were  utterly 
annihilated.  Nothing  has  been  known  of  them  since;  yet  the 
Prophet  uses  no  such  language  in  reference  to  them,  but  as 
ever,  the  stone  smites  and  destroys  the  Roman  empire.  The 
Prophet  enumerates  all  that  composed  the  political  character 
of  the  whole  entire  image,  ''the  iron,  the  clay,  the  brass,"  etc., 
and  tells  us  "it  became  as  chaff*  and  the  wind  carried  them 
away  that  no  place  was  found  for  them."  There  will  be  no 
place  found  for  monarchy  in  the  regenerated  earth  and  heavens. 
Dr.  Baldwin  says:  "It  is  an  undeniable  fact  that  the  great  im- 
age represented  all  the  human  monarchy  that  was  ever  to  be 
universal  on  earth.  And  it  is  also  undeniable,  that  not  one 
fragment  of  their  political  character  was  to  remain,  for  "  there 
was  no  place  found  for  them."  In  the  annihilation  of  these 
monarchies,  it  follows  that  the  divine  right  of  kings,  claimed 
by  them,  was  swept  forever  from  the  earth.  Now,  as  the  stone 
removed  all  of  the  political  fabric  of  monarchy,  and  filled  its 
place  with  another  kind  of  government,  it  is  evident  that  the 
government  must  be  a  republic,  because  it  could  be  of  no  other 
kind.  Again,  no  reason  is  assigned  in  the  text  for  the  hostility 
of  the  stona  to  the  whole  system  of  monarchy;  yet  it  is  plain 
that  it  purposed  to  break  up  and  totally  extirpate  not  one  part 
only  of  the  system  of  monarchy,  but  it  was  terribly  hostile  to 
the  minutest  fragment  of  it.  This  again  indicates  its  republi- 
can character,  for  there  is  an  innate  hostility  in  republicanism 
to  monarchy,  nor  can  it  ever  rest  satisfied  while  it  sees  a  mon- 
archy in  existence.  It  is  belligirent  to  the  very  name  of  a 
human  king,  and  its  highest  indignation  is  never  reached  un- 
less it  is  roused  on  account  of  monarchy.  We  have  already 
shown  that  God  hates  monarchy  and  loves  a  theocratic  democ- 


IN   THE    RESTORATION.  45 

racy,  such  as  that  of  republican  Israel;  and  as  he  established 
the  stone  kingdom,  it  is  evident  that  he  would  conform  it  to 
his  notions  of  a  true  government,  which  is  that  of  a  democracy 
with  himself  as  the  chosen  head.  The  fifth  kingdom  or  gov- 
ernment would,  therefore,  be  a  Christian  democracy.  The 
stone,  it  is  observable,  did  not  incorporate  one  particle  of  clay 
or  of  the  metals  with  itself;  it  preserved  its  lithological  nature, 
unmixed  by  any  affinity  with  the  political  qualities  of  clay  or 
metal;  it  must,  therefore,  have  been  a  republic.  But  as  God 
was  its  founder  he  must  have  been  acknowledged  as  its  head, 
so  that  it  was  just  such  a  republic  as  that  which  entered  Canaan 
under  Joshua.  Now  we  will  see  how  the  United  States  com- 
ports with  the  stone  kingdom.  As  some  may  think  the  idea 
of  the  United  States  in  prophecy  a  chimerical  one,  we  will 
quote  from  Dr.  Baldwin  on  the  probability  that  the  United 
States  would  be  a  theme  of  prophecy.  "  The  rise  of  the  United 
States,"  says  he,  "  began  the  great  era  of  national  humanity  in 
the  world.  Cruelty  and  blood  had  been  the  principal  features 
in  the  governments,  from  Babylon  down  to  the  Declaration: 
and  the  Declaration  enumerates  a  catalogue  of  abuses  and 
cruelties,  on  the  part  of  England,  for  which  rebellion  was  the 
only  remedy. 

*'The  successful  example  of  a  rebellion  on  the  part  of  op- 
pressed subjects  soon  taught  monarchies  to  lighten  the  pressure 
of  their  iron  heel  upon  the  necks  of  the  crushed.  Hence,  the 
cessation  of  inquisitions,  auto  defes  and  the  general  and  bloody 
massacres  of  the  good.  The  rise  of  the  United  States  was  the 
era  of  a  nationality.  Bad  as  many  of  our  people  are,  our  plague 
spots  are  purity  compared  to  the  corruptive  courts  of  other 
lands." 

"  Never  did  a  nation  have  such  a  feeling  heart  as  ours.  The 
cry  of  starving  Ireland  wakens  no  chord  in  the  heart  of  the  Lion 
and  Unicorn,  but  it  thrills  the  bosoms  of  our  millions,  and  they 
give  with  a  free  and  full  hand  to  the  fainting  slaves  of  British 


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FREEDOM.  The  despairing  cry  of  liberty  froni  Hungary,  stirs 
all,  from  ocean  to  ocean,  and  they  nurse  the  moan  upon  the 
breast  of  memory,  till  the  day  of  vengeance  comes.  They  open 
wide  their  gates,  and  with  outstretched  arms  invite  the  weary 
and  heavy  laden  to  tarry  with  them  and  be  refreshed,  and 
sharpen  their  sword  till  the  hour  to  strike  for  the  world's 
release.  They  say,  "whosoever  will,  let  him  come;"  they  say 
to  the  starving,  "we  have  bread  enough  and  to  spare;"  they 
-ay  to  the  poor,  "  come  share  our  rich  inheritance;"  they  say 
to  ihe  oppressed,  "take  shelter  under  the  stars  of  our  banner;" 
and,  while  millions  crowd  the  way,  th.ey  say, ''  there's  room  for 
millions  more."  Our  kind  hearted  country  is  "the  desire  of 
all  nations;"  and  to  it  the  nations  come. 

"  Our  rising  was  the  epoch  of  knowledge  among  men,  the 
realization  of  the  prediction,  "that  many  should  run  to  and 
fro,  and  knowledge  should  be  increased."  With  us  the  press, 
that  luminary  of  liberty,  arose  like  a  splendid  sun  from  the 
deeps  of  chaos,  and,  through  the  rifted  clouds,  flashed  a  be- 
wildering brightness  on  the  unused  eyes  of  the  world.  The 
press  was  chained  before;  now  it  is  free.  Unnumbered  mil- 
lions of  books  and  printed  truths,  each  year,  and  month,  and 
day,  like  bars,  and  beartis,  and  rays  of  'massy  light,*  pour 
their  fair  splendors  on  the  immortal  mind,  through  all  our 
hemisphere.  Here  burns  'the  lamp  of  eternity'  on  every 
table  of  the  rich,  and  in  every  cottage  of  the  lowly,  lighting  th« 
soul  with  the  knowledge  of  its  sublimity  and  the  luster  of 
Christianized  humanity.  Here  science  and  art  have  sowed 
seed  of  perennial  fruit,  to  grow  and  blossom  now,  and  ripen  early 
in  the  approaching  millennial  summer.  Like  fountains  of 
worth  and  beauty,  schools  are  among  the  hills  and  vales,  and 
everywhere;  and  all  'our  children  are  taught  of  the  Lord.' 
Our  rise  was  the  epoch  of  agriculture,  commerce,  manufactures, 
and  trade.  Land  had  been  tilled  from  Adam,  to  be  sure,  but 
when  an  empire  was  at  once  put  under  tribute  by  improved 


IN    THE    RESTORATION.  47 


modes  of  production,  there  was  an  epoch.  Cotton  rules  the 
world;  and  cotton  makes  an  era  in  the  world's  prosperity;  and 
with  us  its  culture  fully  began.  Commerce  was  but  a  fishing 
smack  before  our  union,  now  it  is  a  navy  on  all  the  seas 
around  the  globe.  Navigation  then  was  a  snail,  now  it  is  a 
tempest;  then  it  was  a  galley  with  oars,  now  it  is  a  palace 
driven  with  superhuman  and  invisible  force;  then  it  was  toil, 
now  an  exquisite  luxury.  Then  manufactories  were  mere 
crudities,  now  they  darken  and  deafen  kingdoms  with  smoke 
and  roar.  Then  all  were  poor,  now  all  are  independent;  then 
all  was  sluggish,  now  all  is  motion;  then  all  was  ignorance, 
now  all  is  information;  then  a  pillar  of  cloud  led  the  world, 
but  now  a  pillar  of  fire. 

But  again,  our  rise  was  the  birth  of  organized  and  demo- 
cratic liberty.  For  such  an  event  the  nations  had  groaned, 
but  never  hoped  to  see.  Philosophy  had  pronounced  it  impos- 
sible, and  kings  had  scouted  it  as  an  idle  conceit;  yet  it  is 
realized  at  last.  Its  country,  like  a  throne,  is  seated  above  all 
l.inds,  upon  the  highest  region  of  the  globe.  Its  temple,  like 
itself,  is  new,  and  free,  and  glorious.  Its  dome  is  the  great 
open  sky,  adorned  by  God's  own  fingers,  and  lighted  by  lamps 
of  his  own  kindling;  circled  with  a  cornice  of  his  own  painting, 
and  animated  with  clouds  moved  and  gilded  by  his  own  skill; 
its  floor  is  the  great  continent  bordered  by  seas  on  either  side; 
its  altar  is  the  nation's  heart;  its  music  is  the  cheerful  voice  of 
the  myriads  of  the  free;  its  worship  is  the  praise  of  God;  and 
there  is  no  image  of  a  God  within  its  mountain  walls,  for  the 
true  God  is  ihere  in  spirit.  Our  nation  was  "  a  nation  born  ;o 
God  in  a  day  " — born  on  Independence  day. 

Upon  the  world  the  effects  of  our  birth  have  been  "life 
from  the  dead. "^  Every  part  of  the  civinzea  worlu,  and  es- 
pecially the  religious  world,  has  felt  our  existence  as  if  we  had 
been  a  universal  galvanic  battery.  Our  influence  abroad  can- 
not be  expressed  by  volumes  of  words;  it  cannot  be  me.asured 


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by  a  gage,  nor  be  estimated  by  balances,  nor  computed  by 
figures.  Revolutions  are  stirred  by  it,  and  every  throne  trem- 
bles on  account  of  it;  kings  feel  it,  and  the  people  are  inspired 
by  it;  religion  brightens  through  it,  and  apostate  papacy  shrinks 
from  its  touch.  Blot  us  from  the  world,  with  all  the  influence 
we  have  exerted  upon  it,  directly  or  indirectly,  and  how  dark 
the  globe  would  be!  Hell  would  celebrate  the  catastrophe,  and 
monarchs  would  invite  all  hell  to  a  feast  of  thanksgiving  at  an 
event  so  delightful  to  iniquity.  Pope  and  pagan  would  leap 
to  youth  from  decrepitude,  and  despotism  would  embrace  them 
again  in  its  loving  and  confraternal  arms,  and  all  would  dance 
With  delight  over  their  common  and  dreaded  foe.  No  country 
ever  existed  that,  in  so  short  a  space,  affocted  the  world  so 
much  and  did  so  much  for  the  good  of  the  cause  of  God  and 
humanity;  and  yet  ours  is  but  the  state  of  infancy.  Now,  then, 
we  ask  a  question:  How  can  it  be,  that  all  other  nations 
affecting  the  cause  of  God  and  man,  should  be  specifically  and 
repeatedly  predicted  by  prophets,  and  our  country,  which  has 
done  more  good  than  all  others  be  unmentioned  by  the  prophets? 
The  prophets  mention  the  minutest  facts,  and  the  smallest 
countries  and  villages  that  affected  God's  ancient  and  his  mod- 
ern Israel;  and  how  happens  it  that  not  a  word  is  said  of 
America?  Egypt  and  Greece,  Edom  and  Moab,  and  Tyre,  and 
Damascus,  and  Sidon,  and  all  the  little  towns  of  Asia  Minor, 
and  the  Levant,  come  in  for  a  share  of  notice,  and  all  the 
mighty  empires  affecting  the  church  are  carefully  enumerated; 
the  divisions  of  the  Roman  empire  were  specially  noticed,  down 
to  the  end  of  them  all,  and  yet  no  notice  given  of  a  Christian 
country  that  gives  more  comfort  and  relief  to  the  Christians 
and  the  distressed  than  was  ever  given  by  all  the  world  put 
together?  How  can  it  be  possible  that  this  country  was  left 
out  of  prophecy?  How  came  it  to  be  the  alone  proscribed 
nation  in  all  the  prophetic  calendar?  You  may  talk  largely  of 
reformations  in  Church  and  State,  but  no  great  and  organic 


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reformations  were,  or  are,  complete  and  free  elsewhere.  And 
can  the  greatest  epoch,  the  brightest  era  in  the  history  of 
Christianity,  be  unnoticed  in  the  scriptures,  while  all  others  of 
minor  note  are  emphasized  with  a  will?  Surely  no.  Right 
where  the  prophets  place  the  rise  of  Israel;  right  where  the 
stone,  or  fifth  kingdom,  was  to  appear;  right  at  that  appointed 
time  our  Christian  country  arose,  and  it  must  be  the  fifth  pre- 
dicted kingdom. 

"  The  stone  was  to  arise  after  Church  and  State  union,  and 
in  the  broken  state  of  Rome.  The  United  States  arose  and  no 
other  did  arise  in  this  period  except  such  as  grew  out  of  the 
image,  or  some  fragment  of  it.  Again,  the  stone  kingdom 
came  out  of  Christianity  the  mountain,  and  therefore  possessed 
the  dual  character  so  often  specified  by  the  prophets,  and  which 
is  an  essential  element  of  civil  government.  Washington,  in 
his  farewell  address,  says, '  With  slight  shades  of  difference,  you 
have  the  same  religion,  manners,  habits,  and  political  princi- 
ples.' As  the  United  States  possesses  the  double  nature  of  the 
Christian  religion  and  a  Christian  civil  government,  it  coin- 
cides with  the  double  character  of  the  stone.  Again,  it  is 
indisputable  that  the  United  States  government  arose  out  of  a 
Christian  people,  and  that  the  constitution  is  essentially  Chris- 
tian, but  not  sectarian.  It  recognizes  all  the  great  virtues  and 
customs  of  true  Christianity,  and  in  all  our  history,  the  God  of 
history  has  been  authoritatively  proclaimed  as  the  king,  and 
the  only  king  of  our  people.  The  Declaration,  the  Constitu- 
tion, the  State  laws,  the  executive,  the  judiciary  and  the  legis- 
lative powers  of  our  country,  have  manifested  uniformly  and 
decidedly,  that  Christianity  was  the  basis  of  our  political  struc- 
ture. Our  coin  sparkles  with  the  illumination  of  Christianity, 
**In  God  we  trust J^  Again,  the  stone  was  to  possess  a  political 
structure  and  a  tremendous  martial  power.  The  exhibition  we 
made  of  martial  power  in  the  great  civil  war,  perfectly  aston- 
ished all  Europe,  and  made  crowned  heads  tremble  on  their 


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thrones.  Again,  the  stone  kingdom  arose  external  to  the 
Eoman  empire;  it  was  not  within  its  limits,  it  came  from  afar 
and  attacked  it  externally.  Now  the  Roman  empire  limi  s 
embraced  all  of  civilized  Europe,  Asia  and  Africa,  or  the 
whole  of  the  old  world;  and  by  consequence  the  stone  kingdom 
was  to  be  in  some  portion  of  th3  new  world  or  America.  To 
this  conclusion  we  are  logically  and  inevitably  coerced.  The 
United  States  was  erected  external  to  the  Roman  empire,  and 
is  the  only  continent  out  of  it  where  a  great  empire,  eufficien 
to  do  this  work,  could  arise.  Again,  the  fifth  empire  was  to  be 
a  republic,  so  is  the  United  States.  Again,  the  fifth  empire  was 
to  break  up  the  whole  fabric  of  monarchy  by  war,  and  was 
then  to  annihilate  the  fragments.  It  must  be  remembered, 
that  the  image  represented  all  of  human  monarchy  that  was 
ever  to  exist;  and  the  image  was  smitten  by  the  stone  aid  lit 
tarally  swept  from  the  earth.  As  the  events  he;3  predicted 
have  not  transpired,  of  course  no  coincidence,  by  the  fulfill- 
ment, can  be  affirmed  between  the  fifth  kingdom  and  any  pow- 
er whatever,  but  show  me  a  man  or  woman  of  observation  that 
does  not  see  plainly  that  the  day  is  rapidly  approaching  when 
republicanism  and  monarchy  shall  close  for  the  final  struggle. 
Sound  philosophy  teaches  that  we  cannot  avoid  a  collision 
with  monarchy  in  general. 

We  are  taught  in  this  vision  that  the  whole  system  of  mon- 
archy was  destroyed  in  the  earth.  What  will  destroy  it?  One 
monarch  will  destroy  another  and  subvert  his  kingdom,  but  he 
will  only  build  up  monarchy  the  stronger  by  so  doing.  What 
will  destroy  it,  we  ask?  I  know  you  reply  in  your  own  minds, 
Republicanism  will  yet  give  it  its  death  blow;  and  it  will 
deal  the  blow  at  such  a  point  in  the  system  that  the  whole 
fabric  shall  fall  with  a  crash  in  hopelesR  ruin  ®We  can  not,  it 
we  would,  avoid  a  collision  with  monarchy.  Its  antipathy  to 
democracy  grows  daily  more-intense,  as  it  is  obliged  to  be  more 
watchful   of  its   interests.     America,  it  regards  as  the  great 


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crater  of  melted  lava,  whose  streams  are  reaching  its  hemis- 
phere; and  it  would  be  a  matter  of  intoxicating  delight  to  it  if 
we  were  out  of  the  way;  and  this  feeling  would  lead  it  to  put 
us  out  of  the  way  if  it  could.  It  views  with  surly  jealousy  all 
our  sympathy  for  the  restless  democracy  struggling  beneath  it; 
{ind  it  is  fully  aware,  that  to  possess  a  steady  throne,  America 
must  be  disorganized.  It  is  stated  that,  in  view  of  these  very 
things,  a  proposition  to  destroy  the  American  republic  was  pro- 
posed in  Russia  as  early  as  1818.  Since  the  origin  and  success 
of  organized  democracy  in  America,  the  liberal  principle  has 
accumulated  and  grown  with  unprecedented  rapidity  in  Europe, 
until  France  has  driven  monarchy  from  her  soil,  and  the  nobil- 
ity of  England  to-day  are  but  ornamental  figure-heads.  The 
innate  hostility  between  liberalism  and  monarchy  will,  from  the 
very  nature  of  the  case,  lead  to  exterminating  hostility  of  one 
party  or  the  other;  both  cannot  exist  together  in  the  world  on 
a  large  scale  and  be  at  peace.  This  collision  with  monarchy 
is  more  clearly  foretold  in  succeeding  descriptions  of  the  fifth 
kingdom,  and  in  all  the  predictions  of  Israel  restored.  The 
-destruction  of  monarchy  by  Israel  restored  is  fully  predicted 
by  Ezekiel  in  the  destruction  of  Gog.  Daniel  also  predicts  it 
in  the  political  judgment  day  of  the  ancient  of  days,  and  in  the 
fall  of  the  wilful  king  in  Israel's  country.  John  repeats  the 
same  thing  in  the  sixth  seal,  in  the  reaping  of  the  earth,  and 
in  the  taking  of  the  beast  and  prophet  by  the  man  on  the  white 
horse,  etc.  Again,  the  fifth  kingdom  was  to  spread  over  the 
whole  earth,  after  the  destruction  of  monarchy,  of  course  no 
full  coincidence  can  here  be  shown,  as  no  fulfillment  has  been 
realized.  But  the  capacity  of  our  government  for  unlimited 
expansion  is  a  quality  inherent  in  its  federative  structure  and 
representative  policy.  Its  tendency  is,  also,  to  accumulate  ter- 
ritorial power.  This  tendency,  not  arising  from  individual  lust 
of  power,  cannot  be  mischievous,  as  when  it  springs  from  the 
monarchical  power  of  aggrandizement.     The  tendency  with  us 


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springs  from  a  desire  to  fulfill  a  divine  command;  to  fill  the 
earth,  to  till  it,  and  subdue  or  civilize  and  refine  and  bless  it. 
The  easy  yoke  and  gentle  burden  of  our  government  is  desired 
by  almost  all  people,  in  preference  to  the  chains  of  anarchy  and 
iron  collar  of  oppression.  Our  doctrine  is,  that  if  the  people  wish 
a  government,  they  should  have  it  in  spite  of  kings.  And  if 
any  people  wish  to  be  annexed  to  us,  they  should  have  their 
wishes  gratified  in  spite  of  the  hellish  despotisms  that  crush 
them.  Again,  the  fifth  empire  was  to  be  established  by  the 
God  of  heaven.  This  is  what  is  meant  by  the  stone  being  cut 
out  without  hands,  and  nothing  more  than  this. 

The  prophet  says,  in  his  own  interpretation,  "the  God  (  f 
heaven  shall  set  up  a  kingdom"  "for  as  much  as  thou  sawetrt 
that  the  stone  was  cut  out  without  hands."  This  does  not  in  - 
ply  any  miraculous  power  at  all,  but  simply  providential  care 
in  its  origin  and  progress.  All  "the  powers  that  be  are  ordain- 
ed of  God"  as  well  as  the  fifth  empire.  Yet  the  Jlanguage 
plainly  conveys  the  notion  that  it  would  be  one  that  God  would 
approve.  Now,  when  we  remember  that  America  was  kept 
from  the  world  till  an  intelligent  Christian  people  were  ready 
to  occupy  it;  when  we  see  it  made  use  of  as  a  Christian  refuge^ 
till  millions  of  Christian  people  were  ready  to  organize  a  gov- 
ernment in  it,  and  then  remember  the  commitment  of  their 
cause  to  God  universally  as  a  people,  and  as  a  government 
their  choice  of  God  as  king,  their  days  of  humiliation,  fasting 
and  prayer  for  civil  and  religious  redemption,  the  conviction 
is  irresistible,  that  God  especially  looked  to  the  United  States 
as  a  government  peculiarly  his  own.  The  acts  of  congress 
were  in  the  name  of  God,  and  at  its  first  session  it  adjourned 
and  on  a  solemn  day  of  fasting  and  prayer,  dedicated  them- 
selves and  their  country  to  God;  and  on  that  memorable  day^ 
the  people  pledged  themselves  to  God  and  liberty.  Individu- 
als and  families,  churches  and  colonies,  prayed  to  God  to 
establish  a  Christian  nation  of  freemen.     For  this  all  the  peo- 


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pie  from  Washington  down,  all  humbly  bowed  themselves  in 
prayer  to  God.  As  one  has  said,  from  Lexington  to  the  victory 
tears  flowed  and  prayers  ascended  in  one  universal,  undying 
cry,  all  over  the  land,  for  the  salvation  of  God.  The  bannered 
hosts  inscribed  upon  their  standards  ^'Nil  desperandum  Christo 
Duce,'^  "He  that  brought  us  over  will  help  us  through."  "Our 
appeal  is  to  heaven."  The  great  declaration,  "  relying  op 
Divine  Providence  we  pledge  our  lives."  When  God  had  gone 
forth  with  our  hosts  and  the  war  had  closed  and  success  had 
crowned  our  efforts,  then  said  the  noble  W^ashington  to  con- 
gress, "I  consider  it  an  indispensable  duty  to  close  the  last 
solemn  act  of  my  official  life  by  commending  the  interests  of 
our  dearest  country  to  the  protection  of  Almighty  God,  and 
those  who  have  the  superintendence  of  them  to  His  holy  keep- 
ing" To  'whom  the  president  of  congress,  in  behalf  of  that 
body,  replied,  "We  join  you  in  commending  the  interests  of 
our  dearest  country  to  the  protection  of  Almighty  God,  beseech- 
ing Him  to  dispose  the  hearts  and  minds  of  its  citizens  to 
improve  the  opportunity  afforded  them  of  becoming  a  happy 
and  respectable  nation."  Well  might  Mr.  Baldwin  say,  in  ref- 
erence to  the  above,  "  Nothing  in  the  valedictories  of  Moses  or 
Joshua  is  replete  with  nobler  or  sincerer  consecration  to  Jeho- 
vah. He  adds,  "  the  people  of  the  United  States  in  the  Revo- 
lutionary war,  abandoned  human  monarchy /oreuer,  and  chose 
<Jol  for  their  king;  and  God  accepted  the  office  and  set  their 
feet  upon  a  rock  and  established  their  goings  and  put  a  song  of 
praise  in  their  mouth  and  a  two-edged  sword  in  their  hand." 

Lastly:  The  fifth  kingdom  was  furiously  hostile  to  monarch  . 
This  we  all  know  is  exactly  descriptive  of  the  character  of 
the  United  States.  We  detest  the  very  name  of  king  and  have 
no  sort  of  respect  for  royalty,  human  crowns  and  scepters.  It 
will  be  seen  that  the  United  States  coincides  with  every  char- 
acteristic of  which  the  fifth  kingdom  was  to  be  possessed,  down 
to  the  present  time.     The  great  and  essential  points  which  are 


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given  to  identify  it,  are  the  time  of  its  rise,  the  source  from 
which  it  was  to  come,  the  poHtical  character,  it  was  to  possess, 
its  locality  outside  the  limits  of  monarchy,  and  its  direct  hos- 
tility to  Roman  monarchy.  AVith  all  these  great  marks  of 
identity  the  United  States  perfectly  coincides;  and  as  perfect 
coincidence  of  persons,  events  and  objects,  with  prophecy;  is  a 
perfect  fulfillment  of  prophecy,  it  follows  that  the  United  State* 
is  the  fulfillment  of  the  fifth  kingdom  predicted  by  Nebuchad- 
nezzar's vision. 

" Land  of  the  west!  though  passing  brief 
The  record  of  thine  age, 
Thou  hast  a  name  that  darkens  all 
On  history's  wide  paj;e  ! 

'  *  Let  all  the  blasts  of  fame  ring  out — 
Thine  shall  be  loudest  far ; 
Let  others  boast  their  satellites, 
Thou  hast  the  Morning  Star. 

*'Thou  hast  a  name  whose  characters 
Of  light  shall  ne'r  depart; 
'Tis  stamped  upon  the  dullest  brain, 
And  warms  the  coldest  heart; 

*'  A  war-cry  fit  for  any  land, 

Where  freedom's  to  be  won ; 
Land  of  tue  west !  it  stands  alone — 
It  is  thy  Washington." 

Then  how  beautifully  the  patriotic  Reid  sings  : 

"  Oh !  joy  to  the  world !  the  hour  is  come, 

When  the  nations  to  freedom  awake. 
When  the  royalists  stand  agape  and  dumb, 

And  monarchs  with  terror  shake ; 
Over  the  wall  of  majesty 

*  Upharsin'  is  writ  in  words  of  fire, 
And  the  eyes  of  the  bondsman,  wherever  'hey  be. 

Are  lit  with  wild  desire. 
Soon  shall  the  thrones  that  blot  the  world, 

Like  the  Orleans,  into  the  dust  be  hurled, 
And  the  word  roll  on  like  a  hurricane's  breath, 

Till  the  furtherest  slave  hears  what  it  saith — 
Arise!  arise!!    Be  free!  be  free!!*' 


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CHAPTER  V. 

Mr.  Baldwin  says:  "  One  remarkable  peculiarity  of  prophecy 
is,  that  ever}^  very  important  prophetic  event  is  repeated  twice, 
or  twice  doubled,  and  that  the  symbolic  prophecies  are  mostly 
accompanied  additionally  with  an  interpretation.  This  prin- 
ciple is  especially  exhibited  in  the  universal  prophecies  of  the 
political  world,  recorded  by  Daniel.  The  vision  we  are  about 
to  consider,  goes  over  the  very  senne  field  of  the  one  we  have 
just  left.  When  Joseph  interpreted  Pharoah's  double  vision  of 
the  Feven  fat  and  seven  lean  kine,  and  the  seven  full  and  seven 
blasted  ears,  he  says:  ''For  that  the  dream  was  doubled  unto 
Pharoah  twice,  it  is  because  the  thing  is  established  by  God 
and  God  will  shortly  bring  it  to  pass."  We  are  told  by  this 
Scripture  that  the  symbolic  prophecies  are  doubled  because  the 
thing  is  established,  and  established  by  God.  So  we  see  by  this 
that  God  emphasizes  the  certain  fulfillment  of  the  symbolic 
prophecies  by  repeating  them. 

This  vision  which  is  the  second  panorama  of  the  six  empires, 
is  recorded  in  the  seventh  chapter  of  Daniel.  It  is  prefaced 
with  a  prophetic  introduction,  which  shows  the  entire  compass 
of  the  prophecy.  Daniel  says:  "I  saw  in  my  vision,  and  be- 
hold the  four  winds  of  heaven  strove  upon  the  great  sea,  and 
four  great  beasts  came  up  from  the  sea,  diverse  from  one  an- 
other." The  term  seas  in  the  prophecies  symbolizes  people, 
generally  all  the  people  of  the  world.  I  would  refer  you  to 
Zech.  10-11;  Hab.  3-8;  and  Kev.  7-3;  where  this  signification 
is  apparent.     In  this  vision  it  also  has  this  meaning.     Daniel 

ells  U8  in  his  interpretation  that  the  four  great  beasts  are  four 
kingdo:ns,  or  four  kings,  and  Hebrew  scholars  tell  us  that  the 
origmal  text  could  have  been  as  properly  rendered  kingdoms. 
The  two  terms  are  interchangeable  in  the  prophecies,  and  in 

fact,  in  common  parlance,  one  implies  the  other. 

These  four  empires  arose  in  different  ages  of  the  world,  and 


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9 

it  is  plain  that  the  term  sea  embraces  the  whole  world  during 
their  history,  or  the  history  of  the  people.  The  striving  of  the 
winds  upon  the  sea  represents  commotions  in  the  political 
world,  and  the  striving  of  the  four  winds  represents  the  univer- 
sality of  these  changes  and  agitations.  Jeremiah  explains  the 
term  "  four  winds."  He  says  in  forty-ninth  chapter  and  thirty- 
eighth  verse:  *'I  will  bring  against  Elam  four  winds,  from  the 
four  extremities  of  the  heavens."  After  this  brief  prophetic  in- 
troduction, in  which  Daniel  saw  the  commotion  in  the  elements, 
which  symbolized  the  commotions  in  the  political  world,  oc 
birth  throes  which  preceded  the  rise  of  these  great  empires,  he 
goes  immediately  on  to  describe  the  appearance  of  the  four 
beasts,  which  illustrates  the  political  character  of  the  first  four 
empires  of  the  monarchy  image,  which  we  have  just  been  con- 
sidering. The  Prophet  says:  "The  first  was  like  a  lion,  and 
had  eagle's  wings;  I  beheld  until  the  wings  thereof  were  plucked 
and  it  was  lifted  up  from  the  earth  and  made  to  stand  upon 
the  feet  as  a  man,  and  a  man's  heart  was  given  to  it." 

We  have  not  space  nor  time  to  give  a  detailed  list  of  the 
points  of  coincidence,  nor  is  it  necessary;  we  have  just  been 
over  the  four  kingdoms,  and  spoken  of  their  characteristics, 
and  you  have  read  of  them  in  history;  when  we  speak  of  the 
more  prominent  points  of  coincidence  you  can  easily  run  them 
out  in  your  own  mind.  This  beast  was  a  lion.  A  lion  fitly 
represents  the  Babylonian  empire.  Jeremiah  describes  it  as  a 
lion  in  the  4th  chapter,  6th  verse,  "  the  lion  is  come  up  from 
his  thicket,  and  the  destroyer  of  the  Gentiles  is  on  his  way;" 
this  lion  had  wings.  Ezekiel  said  of  Babylon,  "  he  shall  fly  as 
an  eagle  and  shall  spread  his  wings  over  Moab."  In  the  17th 
chapter  he  calls  it  "  a  great  eagle  with  great  wings."  ®It  being 
*'lifte(^^up  from  the  earth  and  made  to  stand  upon  the  feet  as 
a  man  and  a  man's  heart  given  to  it,"  shows  a  change  of  char- 
acter in  the  government,  from  a  beastly  to  a  human  character, 
after  the  king's  conversion.     These  characteristics  are  agreed 


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to  by  all  writers,  as  identifying  the  winged  lion  with  the  first 
of  the  four  great  empires.  Again,  "  and  behold  another  beast, 
a  second,  like  unto  a  bear,  and  it  raised  itself  on  one  side;  and 
it  had  three  ribs  in  the  mouth  of  it,  between  the  teeth  of  it;  and 
they  said  unto  it  arise,  devour  much  flesh."  This  beast  repre- 
sents the  second  kingdom  in  the  series  of  the  four.  The  Medo- 
Persian  was  the  second  universal  empire  in  the  series  of  uni- 
V  ;rsal  empires  of  the  world.  Again,  it  raised  itself  on  one 
s".de;  the  double  dynasty  of  Modes  and  Persians  coincides  with 
the  two  sides  of  the  bear;  and  the  final  superiority  and 
ascendency  of  the  Persians  over  the  Medes,  coincides  with  the 
raising  of  one  side  of  the  bear.  Again,  the  three  ribs  in  the 
mouth  of  the  bear,  finds  their  coincidence  in  the  three  vice- 
royalties  into  which  the  empire  was  divided,  and  of  which 
I^aniel  speaks.  He  says,  "it  pleased  Darius  to  set  over  the 
kingdom  a  hundred  and  twenty  princes,  which  should  be  over 
the  whole  kingdom,  and  over  these  three  presidents.  Again, 
the  conquests  of  the  Medes  and  Persians  were  very  extensive, 
and  very  cruel  and  destructive,  and  in  this  respect  they  jointly 
coincide  with  the  "devouring  of  much  flesh."  Again,  "After 
this  I  beheld,  and  lo!  another  like  a  leopard,  which  had  upon 
the  back  of  it  four  wings  of  a  fowl;  the  beast  had  also  four 
heads,  and  dominion  was  givento  it."  This  was  the  third 
beast,  and  it  represented  the  third  universal  kingdom,  which 
was  the  Macedonian.  The  four  corners  of  the  earth  signify 
also  the  four  wings  of  the  earth,  and  wings  signify  powers  or 
governments  and  also  velocity.  .The  leopard  being  a  spot- 
ted beast,  represents  a  mottled  or  mixed  kingdom  The 
leopard  had  four  heads.  Of  course  the  kingdom  was  to  be 
divided  into  four  parts.  This,  with  the  four  wings,  is  a  double 
indication  of  the  quadruple  character  the  kingdom  was  to  ex- 
hibit. We  learn  in  the  Apocalypse  that  a  head  signifies  a  kind 
of  government.  With  these  characteristics,  you  can  see  at  a 
glance  how  perfectly  the  Macedonian  empire  agrees. 


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Again:  ''After  this  I  saw  in  the  night  vision,  and  behold  a 
fourth  beast,  dreadful  and  terrible,  and  strong  exceedingly,  and 
it  had  great  iron  teeth;  it  devoured  and  broke  in  piece,  and 
stamped  the  residue  with  the  feet  of  it,  and  it  was  diverse  from 
all  the  beasts  that  were  before  it,  and  it  had  ten  horns."  When 
Daniel  asked  the  angel  to  interpret  this  for  him.  "  Thus,  he 
said,  the  fourth  beast  shall  be  the  fourth  kingdom  upon  the 
earth,  which  shall  be  diverse  from  all  the  kingdoms,  and  shall 
devour  the  whole  earth,  and  shall  tread  it  down  and  break  it  in 
pieces."  The  points  of  character  to  identify  it  in  this  period  of 
its  history  are  (1)  It  was  to  be  the  fourth  universal  empire;  (2) 
it  was  to  be  exceeding  powerful  above  all  nations  before  it,  (8) 
it  was  to  differ  from  all  the  other  kingdoms;  (4)  it  was  to  sub- 
due the  whole  earth  by  violence;  (5)  its  political  complexion 
was  to  be  of  iron  teeth  and  nails  of  brass.  With  these  charac- 
teristics the  Roman  empire  fully  coincides.  It  was  the  fourth 
great  kingdom.  It  was  the  most  powerful  nation  that  ever 
existed.  It  differed  from  all  the  great  kingdoms  before  it  in 
almost  every  great  point  of  excellence.  It  subdued  all  nations^ 
and  made  them  tributary  to  its  power.  Its  political  complex- 
ion was  Roman  and  Grecian,  or  iron  and  brass;  the  destroying 
policy  is  here  represented  by  iron  teeth,  as  it  was  represented 
by  iron  in  Nebuchadnezzar's  vision.  Again  the  Prophet  says, 
"  I  considered  the  horns  and  behold  there  came  up  behind 
(Mede  Faber,  &c.)  them  another  little  horn  before  whom  there 
were  three  of  the  first  horns  plucked  up  by  the  roots,  and  be- 
hold in  this  horn  were  eyes  like  the  eyes  of  a  man,  and  a 
mouth  speaking  great  things."  Then  Daniel  again  applies  to 
his  celestial  interpreter,  and  says,  ''  I  would  know  the  truth  of 
the  fourth  beast,  and  of  the  ten  horns  that  were  in  his  head, 
and  of  the  other  horn  which  came  up,  and  before  whom  three 
fell,  even  of  that  horn  that  had  eyes,  and  a  mouth  that  spake 
very  great  things,  whose  look  was  more  stout  than  his  fellows," 
and  the  angel  replied,  "  The  ten  horns  out  of  this  kingdom  are 


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ten  kings  (or  kingdoms)  that  shall  arise,  and  another  shall 
arise  behind  them,  and  he  shall  be  diverse  from  the  first,  and 
shall  subdue  three  kings,  and  he  shall  speak  great  words 
against  the  Most  High,  and  shall  wear  out  the  saints  of  the 
Most  High,  and  think  to  change  times  and  laws,  and  they  shall 
be  given  into  his  hand,  until  a  time,  and  times,  and  the  divid- 
ing of  a  time.  But  the  judgment  shall  sit,  and  they  shall  take 
away  his  dominion  to  consume  and  destroy  it  unto  the  end." 
Now,  we  know  that  the  body  of  the  fourth  beast  represents  the 
fourth  kingdom  in  a  united  state,  for  so  the  Prophet  says,  this 
state  of  the  kingdom  was  represented  in  the  other  vision  by  the 
iron  alone  before  the  clay  came  in.  The  divided  state  of  the 
fourth  kingdom  there  represented  by  ten  toes  is  here  repre- 
sented by  the  ten  horns;  for  the  Prophet  says  the  ten  horns  are 
ten  kings  or  kingdoms.  The  number  ten  was  a  representative 
number,  and  simply  implied  that  the  empire  should  be  so 
effectually  broken  up  that  ten  separate  kingdoms  should  be 
formed  out  of  it,  though  many  more  in  time  should  appear. 
In  looking  into  this  vision  we  see  the  union  of  Church  and 
State,  which  was  represented  in  the  other  vision  by  the  coming 
in  of  the  clay  with  the  iron,  here  represented  with  astonishing 
clearness  by  the  rise  of  the  little  horn. 

I  will  not  occupy  further  space  here  to  give  all  the  coinci- 
dences between  this  little  horn  kingdom  and  the  papal  power, 
you  can  easily  run  them  out  in  your  own  mind.  Messrs. 
Mede,  and  Faber,  and  others,  in  their  translations  tell  us  that 
this  horn  arose  anterior  to  the  ten,  and  before  the  divided  stat 
of  the  Roman  empire,  at  the  very  time  of  Church  and  State 
union.  This  little  horn  was  to  differ  in  political  nature  fron  i 
the  other  horns.  "He  shall  be  diverse  from  the  first.''  li 
was  to  be  a  spiritual  power  as  well  as  political.  "Behold  ii 
this  horn  were  eyes  like  the  eyes  of  a  man,  and  a  mouth  speak- 
ing great  things;  his  look  was  more  stout  than  his  fellows,' 
etc.     It  was  to  speak  great  things  and  great  words  against  the 


60  THE    UNITED    STATES 


Most  High,  and  the  saints  were  to  be  given  into  its  hand. 
From  this  special  oversight  of  the  saints,  and  its  political  char- 
acter diverse  from  the  other  powers,  and  its  eyes  and  mouth  of 
a  prophet,  directing  words  against  God,  it  is  evident  that  this 
liorn  was  principally  a  spiritual  power,  though  blended  with 
the  political  as  is  indicated  by*  the  union  of  the  two  eyes  in  the 
horn  or  head.  He  was  to  "think,  to  change  times  and  laws;" 
this  is  plainly  expres^-ive  of  a  will  on  his  part,  to  change  polit- 
ical or  spiritual  policy,  or  both.  You  can  compare  these  things 
in  your  own  mind  with  the  past  history  of  the  papal  power 
The  fact  of  the  horn  being  a  spiritual  power,  inclines  us  to  the 
opinion  that  the  laws  and  times  given  to  it  were  of  a  spiritual 
nature,  rather  than  political.  Again,  it  was  to  "wear  out  the 
saints."  The  term  saints — as  we  have  seen — in  the  Old  Testa- 
ment is  synonymous  with  Christian  in  the  New.  It  is  remark- 
able that  in  all  of  Daniel's  prophecies  of  the  latter  day,  he 
never  mentions  the  name  of  Israel  or  Judah,  or  anything  aboUk 
Jews  after  the  destruction  of  Jerusalem.  The  wearing  out  of 
tlie  saints  implies  a  general  persecuted  condition,  hence,  the 
little  horn  was  a  persecuting  ecclesiastical  power.  The  Prophet 
then  adds:  "I  beheld  till  the  thrones  were  cast  down."  This 
expression  synchronizes  with  the  destruction  of  monarchy  h} 
the  stone  kingdom  in  the  other  vision,  and  relates  to  the  same 
time  and  event,  and  then  he  imriiediately  adds,  "  and  the  An 
cient  of  days  did  sit."  Now  here,  we  are  aware  we  must  meet 
with  settled  prejudice.  It  is  natural  for  those  who  do  not  makt, 
the  prophecies  a  particular  study,  and  hence  are  wholly  unac- 
quainted with  the  conventional  rules  of  interpretation,  to  inter- 
pret the  prophecies,  and  especially  the  symbolic  prophecies, 
according  to  the  apparent  construction  of  the  language,  making 
part  literal  and  part  symbolical.  A  great  many,  in  this  passage, 
have  been  in  the  habit  of  referring  the  expression,  Ancient  oj 
daySf  to  God.  But  this  is  a  symbolic  character  like  all  the  rest, 
and  means  Israel  restored.     One  like  the  Son  of  Man  came 


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mih  the  clouds  of  heaven,  and  he  came  to  the  Ancient  of  days. 
Christ  went  to  God;  is  now  with  him.  Here,  we  are  told,  he 
comes  from  God  and  comes  to  the  Ancient  of  days,  and  they — 
not  the  Ancient  of  days,  nor  God — but  they  (pronoun  of  mul- 
titude), the  people  of  the  Ancient  of  days,  brought  him  near 
and  the  kingdom  was  given  to  him.  We  have  the  best  author- 
ity that  a  man,  as  a  symbol,  always  represents  a  government 
of  some  kind.  Thus  Judah  is  put  for  the  Jewish  nation,  sa 
also  is  Israel  and  Ephraim  and  Jacob.  The  great  image  of 
Nebuchadnezzar's  vision  also  represents  a  body  of  government, 
and  so  also  does  the  "  Man  of  Sin."  The  two  horned  beast,  or 
false  prophet,  in  the  book  of  Revelation,  also  symbolizes  a 
nation  So  also  a  woman  is  put  for  an  ecclesiastical  body  of 
government,  and  in  general  a  human  person  represents  any  or- 
ganized body  of  power.  The  throne  on  which  he  sits  symbol* 
izes  a  government  or  organized  body  of  people.  In  the  sym- 
bolic prophecies  every  word  is  fraught  with  the  greatest  and 
most  important  meaning.  Kingdom  and  throne  are  used 
synonymous  in  the  prophecies.  Pharaoh  says  to  Joseph,  "only 
in  the  throne  will  I  be  greater  than  thou."  We  have  seen  that 
this  symbolic  personage  sitting  upon  the  throne  represented  a 
body  of  the  people  that  had  been  an  organization  in  ancient 
days,  but  now  are  restored,  for  the  "  Son  of  Man  "  comes  to  it, 
as  he  was  to  come  to  Israel  restored,  and  it  says  here  that  "there 
was  given  him  dominion,  and  glory,  and  a  kingdom,  that  all 
people,  nations,  and  languages,  should  serve  him;  his  dominion 
is  an  everlasting  dominion,  which  shall  not  pass  away,  and  his 
kingdom  that  which  shall  not  be  destroyed."  If  this  is  not 
the  Israel  restored,  which  the  prophets  dwell  upon  so  much,  it 
can  never  be  restored,  for  here  is  the  same  endless  perpeti  ity 
^nd  universality  of  empir^  and  dominion  that  is  always  pre- 
dicted of  Israel  restored,  and  is  said  and  can  be  said,  of  no 
other  nationality.  The  Prophet  is  not  speaking  here  of  the 
rise  of  Israel  restored;  he  does  Bpeak  of  its  rise,  you  will  sej. 


'62  THE    UNITED    STATES 


in  the.  twenty-first  and  tAventy-second  verses,  where  he  says: 
"I  beheld,  and  the  same  horn  made  war  with  the  saints,  and 
prevailed  against  them,  until  the  Ancient  of  days  came;^^  not 
did  sit,  but  came;  "and  judgment  was  given  to  the  saints  of 
the  Most  High,  and  the  time  came  that  the  saints  possessed 
the  kingdom." 

The  judgment  which  Daniel  speaks  .of  here  in  the  tenth 
verse  is  a  political  judgment,  but  reads  so  much  like  the  spir- 
itual judgment  recorded  in  St.  John  in  the  20th  chapter  of 
Revelation,  that  the  casual  reader  blends  the  two.  The  22d 
V3rse  of  this  prophecy,  that  we  are  considering,  tells  us  that 
t  lis  judgment  was  given  into  the  hands  of  the  saints,  but  th  ' 
spiritual  judgment  of  St.  John  is  given  into  no  hands  but  those 
of  the  Eternal  Judge.  One  is  at  the  ushering  in  of  the  millen- 
nium, the  other  (the  spiritual)  is  at  the  close  of  that  period. 
But  after  its  rise  the  prophet  continued  to  look  prospectively 
into  the  future,  for  he  says,  "  I  beheld  till,^^  &c.  He  saw  the 
J-^on  of  Man  come  and  take  the  government. 

Now,  there  is  nothing  plainer  than  that  Christ's  second  com- 
ing is  a  literal  personal  coming,  just  as  certain  as  Christ  was 
once  on  earth  in  person,  just  so  certainly  has  he  promised  to 
come  again  in  person.  Both  at  the  hour  of  his  ascension,  and 
at  other  times,  has  he  promised  it.  We  can  only  touc^  on 
these  points  here.  We  will  treat  of  them  more  at  length  in 
another  treatise.  And  it  is  equally  plain  that  when  he  comes 
he  is  coming,  to  his  Ancient  of  days,  or  to  his  own  nationality 
of  ancient  days,  restored  in  a  Christian  dress,  or,  in  other 
words,  Christ  is  coming  to  sit  upon  the  throne  of  Israel  restored 
to  nationality. 

Mr.  Baldwin  says  of  the  Ancient  of  days,  "  The  name  of  the 
ancient  of  days  implies  its  priority  of  existence,  as  a  nationality 
in  kind,  it  had  ceased  to  exist,  but'now  rises  into  being  again, 
indeed  the  very  coming  of  the  ancient  implies  his  absence  from 
u  position  he  once  occupied.     As  it  was  in  a  Christian  dress, 


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it  is  evident  that  it  must  have  existed  previously  in  a  different 
style.  As  there  was  no  democracy  in  olden  times,  with  which 
the  ancient  could  be  compared,  except  the  Hebrew  republic  of 
ancient  days,  it  is  clear  that  the  allusion  is  to  that,  and  as  the 
restoration  of  Israel  to  nationality  in  the  latter  day  was  prom- 
ised, and  as  that  nationality  was  to  be  a  Christian  one,  it  is 
conclusive  that  the  Ancient  of  days  was  the  promised  nation- 
ality of  Israel  restored — the  democracy  of  Israel  in  a  Christian 
dress."  That  the  "Ancient  of  days  symbolized  an  organized 
nationality  of  people  possessing  an  overwhelming  martial  power 
is  evident  from  the  fact  that  the  vision  represents  the  ancient 
of  days  so  destroying  Roman  Europe,  this  is  a  clear  case.  It 
also  represents  him  as  giving  the  kingdom  to  the  Son  of  Mcn^ 
after  he  had  taken  it.  Now,  the  interpretation  says,  the  saints 
shall  take  the  kingdom,  and  the  people  of  the  saints  shall 
possess  it;  the  saints  and  the  people  of  the  saints  are  represented 
as  'synonymous  with  the  throne  and  the  ancient  upon  it. 
Again,  the  vision  emphatically  shows  that  these  people  of  saints 
existed  in  a  terrible  and  glorious  organization,  for  all  of  the 
imagery  representing  them  is  most  vividly  organic. 

Again,  the  thousand  thousands  that  ministered  to  the 
ancient,  shows  that  an  organic  mass  of  people  were  united 
to  execute  one  single  design.  But  farther  still,  the  work  which 
the  ancient  had  on  hand,  shows  that  he  represents  a  national- 
ity. His  work  was  to  destroy  a  mighty  empire;  to  overthrow 
Europe;  to  cast  down  thrones;  to  sit  in  judgment  on  over  a 
hundred  millions  of  people  and  to  annihilate  the  empire  church, 
as  well  as  the  Roman  state  of  Europe.  Such  a  work  necessi- 
tates him  to  be  a  political  fabric  as  well  as  a  spiritual  one. 

No.v  the  prophet  tells  us  plainly  that  church  and  state  union 
should  prevail,  should  practice  and  prosper,  for  a  certain  time. 
He  says  "  and  he  shall  speak  great  words  against  the  Most 
High,  and  shall  wear  out  the  saints  of  the  Most  High,  and 
thi  ik  to  change  times  and  laws:  they  shall  be  given  into  his 


64  THE   UNITED   STATES 


hand  until  a  time  and  times  and  the  dividing  of  time."  Mr. 
Baldwin  has  reckoned  this  time  with  great  care,  and  on  it  he 
says  as  follows:  "  The  truth  of  the  whole  matter  of  the  papal 
power  in  Europe  is  this;  the  church  was  united  to  the  State  in 
the  year  325  A.  D.  on  the  19th  of  June.  We  place  church  and 
State  union  on  the  opening  day  of  the  council  of  Nice,  because 
it  was  on  that  day  that  the  first  great  ecclesiastical  assembly 
met  by  order  of  the  imperial  decree  and  in  the  morning  the 
emperor  appeared  in  the  assembly  and  in  an  oration  proclaimed 
formally  the  powers  he  conferred  upon  them  in  the  State.  He 
stated,  impliedly,  that  the  decision  of  that  assembly  should  be 
respected  as  law  in  the  empire  by  imperial  sanction;  and  from 
that  day  to  this  that  speech  he  made  has  been  the  understood 
basis  of  church  and  State  union.  He  proposed  to  settle  church 
differences,  and  enforce  church  unity  of  faith,  hoping,  (says 
he)  by  my  interference,  a  remedy  might  be  applied  to  the  evil, 
I  sent  for  you  all  without  delay — The  various  decrees  of  that 
beginning  of  iniquitous  councils,  were  sanctioned  by  imperial 
authority,  and  on  the  first  day  of  the  council  was  formally 
begun  a  system  of  ecclesiastical  despotism  under  which  mil- 
lions have  suffered  martyrdom.  It  was  the  first  formal  meet- 
ing of  civil  and  ecclesiastical  power  in  union. "  Mr.  Baldwin 
makes  the  three  and  one-half  times  to  be  equal  to  529,984  days^ 
and  then  he  adds,  "  if  we  date  the  origin  of  the  papal  power  on 
the  19th  of  June  325  A.  D.  ,  the  day  of  the  session  of  the  coun- 
cil of  Nice,  and  its  opening  by  the  emperor,  and  then  add  to  it 
529,984  days  it  brings  us  down  exactly  to  the  4th  day  of  July^ 
1776.  On  that  very  day  the  United  States  declared  their  inde- 
pendence of  civil  and  ecclesiastical  monarchy,  and  that  day 
was  tht.  first  on  which  the  church  had  been  freed  from  the 
domination  of  civil  and  ecclesiastical  power  from  the  days  of 
Constantine. "  At  that  time  the  wearing  out  of  the  saints,  the 
persecution  of  Rome  ceased.  At  that  time  a  nation  was  born 
in  a  day. 


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CHAPTER  VI. 

There  are  some  things  so  unequivocally  predicted  in  Scrip- 
ture that  no  one  can  dispute  them.  Men  may  refuse  to  believe 
that  the  predictions  will  ever  be  fulfilled,  and  believers  may 
differ  as  to  the  manner  in  which  they  will  be  fulfilled,  but  as 
to  the  fact  of  their  being  predicted  in  the  sacred  record,  none 
will  deny.  Some  of  those  things  are  the  following:  The  res- 
toration of  God's  Israel  to  nationality;  that  that  nationality 
^vill  destroy  all  the  kingdoms  of  this  world,  and  will  extend 
itself  over  the  entire  globe;  that  it  will  endure  forever;  that  in 
destroying  the  kingdoms  of  this  world  it  is  to  do  it  in  one  grand 
battle  called  the  battle  of  "Armageddon;"  that  this  great  battle 
ushers  in  the  millenial  period;  that  Christ  is  to  make  a  second 
advent  to  earth,  when  He  is  to  take  the  reins  of  government  in 
His  own  nationality,  or  in  Israel  restored,  and  is  to  reign  forever 
<and  ever,  and  that  He  is  to  come  at  the  millennial  period;  that 
the  millenial  period  is  stated  in  Scripture  to  be  1000  years,  at 
the  close  of  which  a  second  Armageddon  battle  is  fought,  in 
which  all  that  opposeth  itself  to  God,  in  all  his  vast  empire,  is 
destroyed.  The  last  Armageddon  is  the  closing  up  of  the 
millennial  period  and  the  perfection  and  consummation  of 
all  things,  beyond  which  we  have  no  revelation.  The  last 
Armageddon  is  recorded  but  once  in  Scripture.  The  first  one 
is  constantly  the  subject  of  prophetic  prediction  throughout  the 
sacred  volume. 

It  is  suggested  in  the  following,  and  all  similar  passages 
(Isa.  66-16),  "For  behold  the  Lord  will  come  with  fire  and 
with  his  chariot  like  a  whirlwind,  to  render  his  anger  with  fury 
and  his  rebuke  with  flames  of  fire.  For  by  fire  and  by  his 
sword  will  the  Lord  plead  with  all  flesh,  and  the  slain  of  the 
Lord  shall  be  many."  And  at  the  close  of  Daniel's  fourth  vis- 
ion, in  speaking  of  the  invasion  of  monarchy,  he  says,  "He 
shall  plant  the  tabernacle  of  his  palace  between  the  seas  in  the 


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glorious  holy  mountain  yet  he  shall  come  to  his  end  and 
none  shall  help  him."  It  is  recorded  in  Revelation,  in  the 
symbolic  language,  where  Michael  and  his  angels  fought  with  the 
dragon  and  his  angels,  and  after  the  victory  ''there  were  great 
voices  in  heaven,  saying.  The  kingdoms  of  this  world  are 
become  the  kingdoms  of  our  Lord,  and  of  his  Christ,  and  he 
shall  reign  for  ever  and  ever. 

Mr.  Baldwin  thinks  the  battle  is  to  be  fought  in  the  United 
States,  and  as  it  is  to  be  in  a  great  valley,  he  places  it  in  the 
valley  of  the  Mississippi.  But  we  must  say,  notwithstanding  we 
have  such  authority  as  Dr.  Baldwin  against  us,  we  think  it  will 
be  fought  in  Europe.  Dr.  Baldwin  cites  the  Scriptures  where 
it  says,  referring  to  the  leader  of  the  forces  of  monarchy,  *'  He 
shall  fall  on  the  mountains  (State  governments)  of  Israel." 
Again,  "He  shall  plant  the  tabernacles  of  his  palaces  and 
come  to  his  end,  in  the  glorious  holy  mountain  (nationality) 
between  the  seas,"  &c. 

We  claim  that  in  that  day — which  we  believe  is  not  very  far 
distant — there  will  be  several  republican  States  in  Europe  con- 
federate with  us,  and  as  all  the  forces  of  the  monarchy  are  there, 
they  will  march  over  onto  the  mountains  of  Israel  (State  gov- 
ernments of  Israel)  in  Europe,  and  plant  his  tabernacle  in  the 
glorious  holy  mountains  (nationalities)  and  come  to  his  end 
between  the  two  seas." 

Immediately  after  this  great  king-destroying  battle,  Christ 
appears  the  second  time  on  earth.  Now,  as  to  the  manner  of 
his  coming,  wh-.Hher  a  personal  or  spiritual  coming,  which 
is  tantamount  to  saying  a  real  or  visionary  appearing, 
there  are  differences  of  opinion.  Some  seem  to  think 
that  a  personal  appearing  of  Christ,  belittles  the  great  event, 
of  this  second  coming;  but  whoever  reads  this  treatise 
will  have  quite  the  opposite  opinion,  we  think.  Nothing  could 
so  gloriously  magnify  and  clothe  with  grandeur  the  stupendous 
event  of  God's  peopling  this  planet;  His  establishing  his  king- 


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dom  here  after  the  fall  of  man;  the  war  He  inaugurated  against 
rebellion;  the  conquest  of  the  world  by  Christ  himself;  the  over- 
throw of  Satan  and  the  powers  of  darkness;  the  recovery  of  the 
world  to  purity  and  good  government;  we  say  that  nothing 
could  so  clothe  it  with  grandeur  and  dignity  and  divine  glory 
as  Christ's  triumphal  return  to  it  after  the  final  victory.  He 
is  not  coming  alone,  as  he  did  the  first  time  he  came;  as  it 
were,  stealing  his  way  back;  "He  is  coming  with  ten  thousand 
of  his  saints."  The  New  Jerusalem  descends  "from  God  out 
of  heaven,"  and  makes  the  place  of  his  feet  glorious;  then 
Christ  comes  with  the  hosts  (clouds)  of  heaven,  the  millions  of 
His  redeemed.  It  is  the  great  coronation  day,  when  Christ 
takes  the  kingdom  to  reign  forever  as  Lord  of  lords  and  King 
of  kings.  "Hallelujah!  Glory  to  God  inthe  higTiest!  Shout 
angels,  shout,  and  loudest  ye  redeemed."  We  hold  that  when 
Christ  said  he  was  coming  again,  that  he  meant  as  he  had 
once  come  in  personal  reality;  so  he  was  in  reality  coming  in 
person  again.  We  believe  this  is  what  the  angels  meant  that 
stood  by  at  His  ascension  and  said  to  his  wrapt  disciples  as  they 
gazed  after  him.  "Ye  men  of  Galilee,  why  stand  ye  gazing  up 
into  heaven?  This  same  Jesus,  which  is  taken  up  from  you 
into  heaven,  shall  so  come  in  like  manner  as  ye  have  seen  him 
go  into  heaven."  And  in  24th  chapter  of  Matthew,  he  cautions 
us  not  to  be  deceived  on  this  point.  He  says  if  any  man  shall 
say  unto  you,  that  he  has  come;  "  Lo,  here  is  Christ,  or  there, 
believe  him  not."  Should  they  say,  "behold  he  is  in  the 
desert,  go  not  forth,  behold  he  is  in  the  secret  chamber,  believe 
it  not;  for  as  the  lightning  cometh  out  of  the  east  and  shineth 
even  unto  the  west,  so  shall  also  the  coming  of  the  Son  of  Man 
be."  He  is  not  speaking  here  of  the  Spirit.  When  he  left  us 
he  said  he  would  send  us  the  Spirit,  and  he  should  testify  of 
him,  and  should  remain  with  us  until  he  comes  again,  and  the 
Spiiit  did  come  on  the  day  of  Pentecost,  and  is  with  us  to-day 
as  every  Christian  can  testify;  but  here  he  is  speaking  of  per- 


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fional  identity,  and  adds  the  figurative  language,  wherever  the 
carcass  is  there  will  the  eagles  be  gathered  together,"  and 
again,  "  every  eye  shall  see  him,"  &c. 

There  is  equally  as  much  difference  of  opinion  in  reference 
to  the  period  of  his  advent,  whether  during  the  millennium,  or 
at  its  close,  or  at  the  beginning.  We  hold  that  He  comes  soon 
after  the  great  battle  of  Armageddon  and  his  coming  ushers  in 
the  millennium.  We  think  Daniel  puts  his  coming  at  this 
point  of  time.  He  says,  "  I  beheld  till  the  thrones  were  cast 
down."  He  continues  to  look  into  the  future  until  he  saw  the 
great  battle  of  Armageddon  fought:  Saw  the  nationality  of 
Christian  Israel  destroy  monarchy:  Saw  the  present  system  of 
self-government,  the  present  organization  of  democracy  in  the 
earth  hurl  the  thrones  into  the  dust.  And  then  he  immediately 
saw  one  like  the  Son  of  Man  come  to  Israel  restored  and  they 
gave  him  the  kingdom.  And  he  goes  immediately  on  and 
describes  it  as  the  millennial  kingdom.  He  says,  *'that  all  peo- 
ple, nations,  and  languages  should  serve  him;  his  dominion  is 
an  everlasting  dominion  which  shall  not  pass  away,  and  his 
kingdom  that  which  shall  not  be  destroyed."  If  this  is  not  the 
millennial  kingdom,  it  crowds  the  millennial  kingdom  out  of 
the  earth,  for  it  is  universal  and  endures  for  ever  and  ever,  and 
Christ  comes  at  its  introduction.  And  again,  in  the  20th  chap- 
ter of  Revelation  you  will  find  the  millennial  period  is  stated 
to  be  just  one  thousand  years  in  duration,  and  those  that  are 
His  are  to  be  there  and  are  expressly  said  to  reign  with  Christ 
a  thousand  years  of  millennial  reign,  which  they  could  not  do 
if  Christ  was  not  there  at  the  ushering  in  of  the  millennium. 
Again,  "immediately  after  the  tribulation  of  those  days,  shall 
the  sun  be  darkened,  and  the  moon  shall  not  give  her  light, 
and  the  stars  shall  fall  from  heaven,  and  the  powers  of  the 
heaven  shall  be  shaken,  and  then  shall  appear  the  sign  of  the 
Son  of  Man  in  heaven,  and  then  shall  all  the  tribes  of  the  earth 
mourn,   and  they  shall  see  the  Son  of  Man  coming  in  the 


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clouds  of  heaven  with  power  and  great  glory."  It  is  hardly 
necessary  to  say  that  this  language  is  symbolical  for  notwith- 
standing our  grandmothers  have  taught  us  that  the  meteoric 
shower  a  number  of  years  since,  was  the  falling  of  the  stars  in 
fulfillment  of  the  prediction  of  Christ,  yet  there  are  none  of  us 
but  what  know  that  if  one  of  those  bright  luminaries  that  we 
see  sparkling  in  the  far  off  fields  of  space  were  to  fall  upon  this 
planet,  it  would  bury  us  almost  below  resurrection  power,  for 
some  of  them  are  many  thousand  times  larger  than  this  earth. 

But  this  language  is  not  so  poor  as  that,  it  has  a  richness 
and  a  grandeur,  and  a  sublimity  that  belongs  to  the  symbolic 
language  of  scripture.  Heaven,  as  a  symbol,  means  the  place 
of  the  church  on  earth,  and  earth,  as  a  symbol,  means  the 
place  of  the  state  or  the  civil  power.  The  sun  symbolizes  the 
state  or  civil  power,  and  the  moon  symbolizes  the  church.  A 
star,  almost  invariably,  symbolizes  a  prince  or  ruler;  as  Bal- 
aam says,  "there  shall  come  a  star  out  of  Jacob  and  a  scepter 
shall  arise  out  of  Israel.'' 

Hebrew  poetry  where  one  line  explains  the  foregoing.  Our 
Savior  in  the  text  quoted,  is  speaking  of  the  battle  of  Arma- 
geddon, the  destruction  of  monarchy  and  his  own  speedy  com- 
ing, he  says,  "  after  the  tribulations  of  those  days  the  sun  shall 
be  darkened,"  there  shall  be  trouble  in  the  State,  national  dark- 
ness, political  troubles,  not  in  the  United  States,  but  in  the 
monarchical  or  false  government,  those  that  are  to  be  overthrown. 
"  The  moon  shall  not  give  her  light."  The  established  Churche  s, 
Church  and  State  union,  the  Church  shall  not  give  her  light- 
"  and  the  stars  shall  fall,"  the  princes  or  rulers  shall  fall  at  the 
fall  of  monarchy.  Daniel  says,  "  I  beheld  till  the  thrones  were 
cast  down^"  "  and  the  powers  of  the  heavens  shall  be  shaken.'' 
All  established  churches  shall  be  shaken  down  together  with 
monarchy,  but  many  of  their  members  shall  be  saved,  and 
then  he  adds,  "  and  then  shall  appear  the  sign  of  the  Son  of 
Man  in   heaven."     This  heaven  is  symbolic   and  means  the 


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place  of  the  church,  the  sign  shall  be  here,  and  all  the  tribes 
of  the  earth  shall  mourn  when  they  see  the  sign;  and  then 
they  shall  "  see  the  Son  of  Man  coming  in  the  clouds  of  heaven 
with  power  and  great  glory."  As  soon  as  monarchy  is  de- 
stroyed; as  soon  as  the  "stars  fall,"  that  is,  the  princes  and 
their  thrones  are  cast  down;  as  soon  as  the  great  battle  of  Ar- 
mageddon is  fought.  The  bright  and  morning  star  is  seen  in 
the  heavens,  and  a  light  bursts  from  the  East — the  place  of 
light — and  streams  athwart  the  heavens,  for  the  sun  that  set 
in  blood  on  Calvary  has  arisen  to  set  no  more.  The  desire  of 
nations  has  come  at  last;  but  0  how  unlike  his  first  coming;  he 
comes  no  more  the  babe  of  Bethlehem  cradled  in  a  manger, 
clinging  to  the  bosom  of  his  outcast  mother.  No  more  pursued 
in  his  helpless  infancy  by  the  inhuman  Herod;  no  more  the 
unassuming  man,  traveling  about  Judea  on  foot,  with  his  plain 
attire  and  seamless  coat;  no  more  dragged  about  by  the  Jeru- 
salem mob,  buffeted,  spit  upon,  scourged  and  crucified.  Now 
he  comes  wearing  the  livery  of  heaven,  and  upon  his  vesture  is 
a  name,  "  Lord  of  Lords,  and  King  of  Kings."  He  says  he  comes 
*'  with  the  clouds  of  heaven."  If  this  is  symbolic,  a  cloud  sym- 
bolizes a  vast  concourse  of  people  as  "a  great  cloud  of  wit- 
nesses." Think  you  not  he  is  coming  as  Moses  said  he  should 
come,  "  with  ten  thousand  of  his  saints,"  and  his  legion  of  an- 
gels? Are  not  these  the  clouds  of  heaven  that  he  is  coming 
with?  What  think  you?  I  cast  my  eye  back  to  the  days  of 
his  humiliation,  and  I  see  him  approaching  Jerusalem  "  meek 
and  riding  upon  an  ass,"  a  great  throng  follows  him  and  they 
spread  their  garments  in  the  way  before  him,  and  "  they  that 
went  before  and  they  that  followed,  cried,  saying,  hosanna  to 
the  son  of  David,  blessed  is  he  that  cometh  in  the  name  of  the 
Lord,  blessed  be  the  kingdom  of  our  father  David,  that  cometh 
in  the  name  of  the  Lord,  hosanna  in  the  highest."  His  per- 
secutors and  enemies  say,  behold  the  whole  world  has  gone 
after  him.     No,  not  the  whole  world  at  that  time,  but  I  cast  a 


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prophetic  eye  into  tlie  future  and  I  see  him  approaching  the 
gates  of  the  New  Jerusalem  with  a  shining  retinue;  it  is  a  vast 
throng,  a  great  cloud,  no  man  can  number  them.  The  earth  is 
yet  damp  and  red  with  the  blood  of  slaughtered  enemies;  the 
great  battle  of  Armageddon  is  fought,  and  the  triumphant  host 
approaches  the  gates  of  pearl,  and  we  hear  a  voice  from  the 
vast  multitude  like  the  sound  of  many  waters  saying,  "lift  up 
^,  ^ar  heads,  O  ye  gates,  and  be  ye  lifted  up  ye  everlasting  doors, 
and  the  King  of  Glory  shall  come  in."  Then  the  cautious  sen- 
tinel (cautious,  because  of  the  recent  invasion)  answers,  "who 
is  this  King  of  Glory?"  Then  the  multitude  replies  again,  "  the 
Lord  strong  and  mighty,  the  Lord  mighty  in  battle;  lift  up  your 
heads,  O  ye  gates,  even  lift  them  up  ye  everlasting  doors,  and 
the  King  of  Glory  shall  come  in."  The  cautious  sentinel  once 
more  asks  "who  is  this  King  of  Glory?"  Then  the  multitude 
again  shouts,  "the  Lord  of  hosts,  he  is  the  King  of  Glory." 
The  doors  fly  up  and  the  pearly  gates  swing  wide,  and  the 
Lord  of  hosts  and  his  cloud  of  saints  enter. 

"  Now  see! 
'Tis  conip,  the  glorious  morn ;  the  second  birth 
Of  heaven  and  earth !    Awakening  nature  hears 
Tlie  new  creating  word,  and  starts  to  life, 
In  every  brightened  form,  from  pain  and  death 
Forever  free!" 

We  believe  his  triumphant  entry  into  old  Jerusalem,  was  a 
type  of  his  glorious  entry  into  the  New  Jerusalem.  The  lamb 
smoking  on  Jewish  altar,  never  found  its  antetype  in  the  Lamb 
of  God  on  Calvary  more  completely  than  will  that  rejoicing 
throng — though  a  faint  representation  of  it — find  its  antetype 
in  His  glorious  Godlike  approach  to  Christian  Israel's  nation- 
ality on  coronation  day.  This  is  glorious  to  contemplate;  more 
glorious  to  behold  its  realization.  But,  my  dear  reader,  we  are 
to  be  there  in  person,  we  are  to  help  swell  the  vast  ranks  of  the 
King  of  Glory  as  they  enter  in  through  the  pearly  gates;  pass 


THE    UNITiiiD    STATES 


under  the  triump'ial  arches;  pass  through  the  gold-paved  city* 
behold  her  bulwarks;  see  the  King  in  his  beauty;  walk  out 
iTjTfUr  the  regenerated  heavens;  set  these  feet  upon  the  regen- 
«  letted  earth,  and  breathe,  for  the  first  time,  the  pure  untainted 
atmosphere  of  mellinnial  perfection.  But,  alas!  Are  there 
any  who  shall  be  cast  off  as  unworthy  to  share  in  these  glories? 
Yes;  there  are  some  who  are  "  aliens  to  the  commonwealth  of 
Israel  and  strangers  to  the  covenant  of  promise."  God  grant, 
that  our  readers  may  be  found  there  and  enter  in  through  the 
gates  into  the  city,  and  "behold  the  King  in  His  beauty," 
for  "  without  are  dogs,  and  eorcerers,  and  whoremongers,  and 
murderers,  and  idolaters,  and  whosoever  loveth  and  maketh  a 
lie."  We  might  here  speak  of  the  probable  nearness  of  these 
events  to  our  day.  We  do  not  propose  to  prophesy,  for  we 
are  not  a  prophet,  but  the  world  is  becoming  very  expectant, 
as  they  were  just  before  His  first  appearance  on  earth.  If  any 
one  can  tell  me  when  those  signs  of  which  Christ  speaks  in  the 
24th  chapter  of  "Matthew,  when  they  begin,  when  the  first  one 
appears;  we  can  tell  you  within  a  very  few  years  when  Christ 
will  appear,  for  he  there  says,  they  shall  transpire  in  rapid 
succession,  and  all  be  accomplished,  together  with  his  coming, 
in  one  generation.  It  is  a  peculiarity  of  the  Scriptures,  that 
the  inspired  writer  in  narrating  chronological  events,  uses  the 
present  tense.  When  Daniel  gave  the  history  of  kingdom 
after  kingdom,  until  he  had  reached  the  broken  or  divided 
state  of  Rome,  in  the  remote  future  2,500  years  from  his  own 
day,  then  as  he  prophetically  stood  in  that  far  distant  age,  and 
surveyed  the  political  world,  and  saw  many  kings  reigning  in 
their  respective  kingdoms,  he  says,  "in  the  days  of  these 
kings,"  .&c.  You  see  he  uses  the  present  tense,  -c  So  our 
Savior,  when  he  had  related  sign  after  sign,  which  preceded 
his  second  coming,  then  says,  "Verily  I  say  unto  you,  this  gen- 
eration shall  not  pass,  till  all  these  things  be  fulfilled;  heaven 
and  earth  shall  pass  away,  but  my  words  shall  not  pass  away." 


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In  our  next  treatise  we  shall  take  up  the  wonderful  symbolic 
prophecies  of  the  Book  of  Revelation;  that  wonderful  prophetic 
imagery,  which  to  one  who  has  no  key  to  them,  sounds  like  the 
bombastical  ravings  of  a  maniac.  But  to  one  who  compre. 
hends  the  prophetic  theme,  and  can  see  the  application  of  his 
God-like  symbols,  it  is  the  grandest,  the  most  beautiful,  the 
most  sublime  imagery  ever  thrown  upon  the  mental  canvas. 

In  taking  up  the  Revelations,  when  speaking  of  the  sixth  and 
seventh  trumpet  periods,  we  shall  have  occasion  to  speak  more 
particularly  of  the  signs  preceding  his  coming,  and  in  what 
age  of  the  prophetic  history  we  are  living.  We  are  doubtless 
not  far  from  those  great  political  events  which  immediately 
preceded  the  millennium.  Christ  labors  hard  to  impress  us 
with  the  fact,  that  when  we  see  the  signs  which  he  has  just 
been  speaking  of,  the  events  just  preceding  and  following  the 
great  battle  of  Armageddon,  that  it  is  near  at  hand,  he  says, 
*'  now  learn  a  parable  of  the  fig  tree;  when  his  branch  is  yet 
tender,  and  putteth  forth  leaves,  we  know  that  summer  is  at 
hand."  Then  he  adds,  "So  likewise,  ye,  when  ye  shall  see  all 
these  things?,  know  that  it  is  near,  even  at  the  doors." 

*'  He  comes!  He  comes !  the  Judge  severe  I 
The  seventh  trumpet  speaks  him  near." 

"  From  heaven  angelic  voices  sound; 
See  the  Almighty  Jesus  crown'd! 
Girt  with  omnipotence  and  grace, 
And  glory  decks  the  Saviour's  face." 

**  Then  He  descending  on  His  throne, 
Shall  claim  the  kingdoms  for  His  own  ; 
The  kingdoms  all  obey  His  word, 
;  And  hail  Him  their  triumphant  Lord." 

"  Shout,  all  the  people  of  the  sky ;  , 

And  all  the  saints  of  the  Most  Hioh  ; 
Our  Lord,  who  now  His  right  obtains, 
Forever  and  forevek  reigns." 


THE  SEQUELA. 


GOD'S  PURPOSES  IN  THE  MSTERmL UNIIERSE  AND 
THE  REASON  OF  WORLDS. 

It  is  apparent  to  every  thinking  mind,  that  all  of  the  material 
universe  had  a  beginning;  and,  also,  there  was  a  time  when 
each  and  every  finite  intelligence,  whether  in  heaven  or  in 
-earth,  began  their  being.  Hence,  in  carrying  out  this  course 
of  reasoning,  we  find  that  there  was  a  time  in  the  eternity  past 
— however  remote — when  God  was  alone  in  the  universe,  or  iso 
to  speak,  when  God  and  space  were  absolute.  There  was  no* 
an  intelligent  being  to  hymn  his  praises,  or  enjoy  his  goodness. 
No  seraph's  wing  fanned  the  eternal  throne.  No  angelic  hosts 
saluted  the  ear  of  Jehovah  with  their  hallelujahs.  No  blood- 
washed  throng  of  redeemed  spirits  encircled  his  throne  filling 
the  vaults  of  heaven  with  the  song  of  redemption. 

Not  a  blazing  sun  with  its  fiery  track;  not  a  star  looked 
down  from  the  empyrean  heights.  Not  a  teeming  world  rolled 
in  the  voids  immense.  All  was  silence!  All  was  God!  No 
intelligent  beings  to  sing  his  praise  or  reciprocate  his  love  and 
goodness.  And  no  forces  had  as  y3t  gone  out  from  him  commis- 
-sioned  to  form  the  material  universe.  But  God  is  infinite  good- 
ness. If  there  is  one  of  His  perfections  that  shines  brighter 
than  another,  it  is  His  goodness.  The  Bible  seems  to  put  con- 
siderable stress  on  this  perfection,  the  goodness  of  God. 

When  Moses  asked  to  behold  his  person,  he  says:  "I  will 
make  all  my  goodness  pass  befo^**^  thee" — as  though  he  had  dig^ 


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played  all  the  glory  of  his  person  when  he  had  displayed  all 
his  goodness.  And  as  He  passed  before  Moses  He  proclaime() , 
"  The  Lord,  the  Lord  God,  merciful  and  gracious,  long  suffer- 
ing and  abundant  in  goodness  and  truth."  Now  it  is  the  chief 
characteristic  of  goodness  to  diffuse  itself.  It  ignores  all  sel- 
fishness. It  is  benevolence  and  love  embodied  and  alive,  full  of 
plans  for  the  benefit  of  others,  and  must  be  actively  at  work  t(j 
make  them  efifective.  Its  expansive  nature  will  not  let  it  rest 
in  itself.  It  must  have  objects  upon  which  to  act;  sentient, 
intelligent  beings  that  can  appreciate  and  reciprocate  this  goo<l- 
ness  and  bring  some  return  to  God  in  praise  and  adoration. 
Hence,  we  behold  another  period  in  the  annals  of  eternity  pa.st 
when  God  first  sent  forth  the  creative  fiat,  and  those  pun- 
spirits,  the  angelic  hosts,  circled  around  his  throne  with  harp 
and  voice  attuned  to  his  praise. 

And  when  we  say  they  were  created  from  a  spark  of  his  own 
intelligence,  we  will  doubtless  meet  with  no  opposition,  no^ 
even  a  severe  criticism.  But  when  we  come  to  speak  of  the 
material  universe  originating  in  an  analogous  way,  we  may 
hear  the  cry  of  materialism,  or  worse  if  possible.  But  as  w« 
have  good  company  both  in  the  scientific  and  theological  world, 
we  shall  fearlessly  proceed. 

And  in  pursuing  the  subject  we  come  to  another  period,  Avhci. 
God  purposed  to  fill  this  space  infinite  with  beautiful  worlds 
and  fiaming  suns.  Not  simply  and  alone  to  display  to  these 
intelligent  angelic  beings  which  he  had  created,  his  power  and 
wisdom,  and  goodness,  and  perfection  of  beauty,  etc.  Though 
we  are  told  that  these  angelic  beings,  "the  sons  of  the  morn- 
ing" of  creation,  shouted  together  and  encircled  Jebbvah's 
throne  with  a  volume  of  praise  as  they  saw  these  beautiful 
worlds  forming,  for,  "The  first  archang6;l  never  saw  so  njuch 
of  God  before."  And  the  Psalmist  could  truthfully  sing,  ''The 
heavens  declare  the  glory  of  God  and  the  firniainent  showeth 
his  handiwork,"  etc.     And  they  do  in  very  deed,  proclaim  with- 


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thousand  tongues  to  all  his  creatures  the  existence  of  that  Gocl 
tha.  formed  them,  and  reflect  his  glory. 

•'  Forever  singing  as  they  shine, 
The  hand  that  formed  us  is  Divine." 

But  it  was  not  for  this  purpose  that  he  made  the  worlds,  it 
was  on  a  higher  and  broader  and  more  noble  plan,  a  plan  that 
becomes  the  dignity  of  a  God.  It  was  to  people  them  with 
intelligent  life;  not  in  the  condition  we  find  ourselves  here  on 
this  planet,  sin-cursed  in  open  rebellion  against  him,  a  world 
of  sin,  sorrow  and  suiffering  and  all  the  wretchedness  that  sin 
brings  upon  intelligent  moral  beings,  this  was  not  his  original 
purpose,  his  plans  have  been  broken  in  upon  by  an  enemy,  but 
not  defeated  as  you  shall  know  before  we  are  done  with  the  sub- 
ject. But  the  question  arises  and  should  be  considered  here 
before  we  go  further,  how  did  he  create  th«  world? 

As  sonic  think  they  see  a  discrepancy  between  science  and 
the  cosmagony  of  Moses  recorded  in  Genesis.  We  would  re- 
mark here  that  we  have  nothing  to  do  with  the  wild  hypoth- 
esis of  some  of  our  scientists  but  only  with  true  science,  and  all 
true  science  throws  light  upon  God's  revelation  and  aids  great- 
ly in  its  interpretation,  and  Bishop  Warren,  has  shown  con- 
clusively that  God's  revelation  aids  materially  in  the  discover- 
ies of  science. 

Now  when  we  come  to  consider  the  manner  in  which  God 
formed  the  worlds,  and  is  forming  them  for  the  same  forces  are 
operating  now  that  have  been  operating  in  the  past,  we  find 
that  science  teaches  us  that  all  things  are  from  a  gaseous  state. 
That  this  is  so  is  apparent  on  every  hand.  If  man  by  a  chem- 
ical process  can  turn  solids  to  a  liquid  and  from  a  liquid  to  a 
gaseous  condition  and  from  a  gaseous  back  to  a  solid,  it  is 
proof  that  the  great  Alchemist  of  the  universe  has  done  so  and 
s  ill  works  in  that  way.  Take  for  instance  your  quicksilver, 
put  it  into  your  crucible  kindle  the  fire  under  it  and  it  will 


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pass  into  the  atmosphere  in  the  form  of  gas,  let  that  gas  as  it 
rises  from  the  crucible  pass  through  a  pipe,  insert  the  end  of 
the  pipe  in  cold  water  and  you  will  throw  it  back  into  a  liquid 
state,  then  take  it  to  Montreal  or  Alaska  in  the  dead  of  winter 
and  you  can  pound  it  out  "like  lead  or  silver  in  a  solid  state 

Water  is  said  to  be  a  mineral  because  it  will  pass  from  a 
solid  to  a  gaseous  under  such  a  low  pressure,  and  the  freezing 
point  solidifies.     But  this  fact  was  most  forcibly  illustrated  in 
the  lixiviation  process,  by  which  they  worked  their  ores  in  the 
reduction  works  at  the  "Silver  King  "  mine  in  Arizona,  by 
which  process  they  threw  the  metal  in  those  ores  into  a  liquid 
state.  We  do  not  understand  the  processes,  but  we  saw  the  result, 
— it  ran  off  from  the  tubs  in  the  water,  clear  and  beautiful,  as 
limpid  as  the  water  of  a  mountain  spring.     By  their  chemical 
processes  they  brought  it  to  a  plastic  state,  about  the  consist- 
ency of  soft  dough  or  putty,  they  then  put  it  in  an  oven  to 
harden.     There  some  of  the  silver  was  doubtless  lost  by  being 
thrown  into  a  gaseous  state  by  the  heat,  as  is  proven  by  the 
fact  that  gas  «  scaping  around  the  iron  doors,  and  through  the 
cracks  in  the  furnace,  the  silver  would  form  as  it  came  in 
contact  with  the  air,  in  the  peculiar  formations  in  which  we 
find  it  in  its  original  deposits  in  the  mines.     No  one  has  been 
able  to  explain  why  it  always  takes  those  peculiar  forms,  not 
even  Mr.  Tilden;  we  mean  the  beautiful  fern  formation  and 
peculiar  wire  formation,  &c.     They  were  finally  compelled  to 
give  up  the  lixiviation  processes.     The  character  of  the  ores  so 
changed  as  they  went  deeper  into  the  mine,  that  in  passing 
through  the  roasters  the  mineral  was  thrown  into  a  gaseous 
state,  and  passed  off  into  the  atmosphere  through  the  smoke- 
pipes,  and  the  mineralogist  told  us  that  with  pipe  enough  he 
could  still  arrest  it  and  bring  it  back  to  a  solid  and  save  his 
silver.     He  also  told  us  of  visiting  a  mine  where  the  chemical 
processes  in  the  great  laboratory  of  nature  were  still  being  car- 
ried on,  and  the  silver  was  forming  from  a  gaseous  state. 


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So  we  trace  matter  leyond  our  present  power  of  vision.  How 
many  states  and  conaitions  beyond  the  gaseous  before  it 
reaches  the  spiritual  we  know  not,  but  we  know  that  some- 
where in  the  unseen  and  the  unseeable  is  its  original  and 
eternal  state.  For  God  helps  us  on  this  point  when  he  says 
"  The  things  that  are  seen  are  temporal,  but  the  things  that 
are  unseen  are  eternal."  We  believe  that  we  shall  yet  find 
that  spirit  is  the  only  true  substance,  the  original  substance 
from  which  all  substance  has  originated.  The  spirit  world  is 
the  world  of  cause  s  and  this  is  the  world  of  effects. 

Dr.  Wilford  Hall,  of  New  York,  whose  scientific  works  mark 
an  era  in  the  history  of  science  greater  than  the  discoveries  of 
any  scientist  of  this  age,  or,  perhaps  we  can  say,  of  any  other 
age,  has  had  the  boldness  to  proclaim  the  doctrine,  that  all 
things,  whether  matter  or  mind,  emanated  from  God's  spiritual 
essence,  and  he  has  brought  down  the  vengeance  of  two  worlds 
— the  scientific  and  theological — upon  his  head,  but  I  believe 
he  will,  Sampson-like,  slay  them  hip  and  thigh.  He  perhaps 
is  not  substantially  correct  in  all  things.  He  does  not  claim 
infallibility,  but  he  has  done  more  for  true  science  and  revela- 
tion than  any  man  of  the  present  day.  Noble  man,  may  Gcd's 
blessing  be  upon  him! 

It  was  not  necessary  that  we  should  trace  matter  back  to  its- 
origin  for  our  purposes  here;  nor  as  far  back  as  Bishop  Warren 
takes  it,  to  its  spirit  origin.  He  says,  "  Into  what  more  ethereal, 
and  we  might  almost  say,  spiritual  forms,  matter  may  be 
changed  we  cannot  tell."  And  again  he  says,  '*We  ask  in  vain 
What  is  matter?  No  man  can  answer.  We  trace  it  up 
through  the  worlds  till  its  increasing  fineness,  its  growing  ~ 
power  and  possible  identity  of  substance  seem  as  if  the  next 
step  would  reveal  its  spirit  origin,"  and  he  evidently  holds  that 
God's  word  teaches  it,  for  he  adds,  "What  we  but  hesitatingly 
stammer  the  word  boldly  asserts."  And  Joseph  Cook,  in 
his  156th  Monday  lecture,  says,  "  Look  first  at  the  fact  that 


TULJ  THE    UNITED    STATES 


matter  originated  in  the  unseen  universe.  Scientific  theism 
has  always  had  a  right,  but  in  our  age  it  has  a  new  right  to 
assert  this  unflinchingly  in  the  face  of  atheism,  agnosticism 
and  materialism."  Again,  ''  The  law  of  continuity  requires  us 
to  go  back  step  by  step  from  subsequent  to  antecedent,  so  that, 
when  we  reach  the  organization  of  atoms,  and  of  their  group- 
ings and  motions,  we  come  at  last  to  the  unseen  universe,  to 
the  substance  of  absolute  and  infinite  being,  to  the  mind  and 
will  of  the  omnipresent  God.  Having  traced  back  matter  to 
the  unseen  universe,  let  us  now  trace  back  natural  life  to  the 
same  source."  And  again  he  says,  in  lecture  No.  168,  March 
10th,  1884,  "  Lotze  taught  that,  from  the  idea  of  matter,  life 
and  soul  cannot  be  explained;  but  that,  from  the  idea  ot  spirit 
all  material  properties  may  be  deduced."  He  makes  spirit  the 
ultimate  substance  of  all  things. 

The  supersensible  reality  underlying  both  matter  and  finite 
mind  is  God.  *  *  *  "  Through  the  English  and 
Scottish  philosophy  have  led  you  up,  little  by  little,  under  dif- 
ferent circumstances,  to  the  unseen  universe.  In  it  we  have 
found  the  origin  of  matter,  motion  and  life." 

But  we  will  not  go  as  far  back  as  this;  we  will  take  it  in  the 
gaseous  state,  then  you  can  adopt  the  nebula  hypothesis,  or  any 
hypothesis  you  may  chose  except  the  pure  evolution  theory. 

Somewhere  back  of  a  gaseous  condition,  was  the  chaotic 
state,  must  have  been,  as  all  material  substances  take  the  glob- 
ular form  when  suspended  in  space;  the  raindrop  conforms 
to  this  principle,  or  law. 

The  planets  when  formed  are  found  in  a  state  of  incandes- 
cence, but  the  tendency  in  everything  in  space  is  to  cool. 
After  long  periods  of  cooling  they  form  a  solid  crust  on  the  sur- 
face. The  cooling  goes  on  until  the  crust  is  thick  enough  to 
support  vegetation,  the  lowest  forms  first,  the  planet  now  be- 
gins to  attain  to  a  life  period,  or  in  other  words,  is  becoming 
capable  of  sustaining  life.     It  will  eventually  pass  beyond  its 


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life  period.  Our  moon  is  an  illustration  of  it;  it  has  become  an 
opaque  body — cold  and  frigid.  Jupiter  has  not  attained  to  its 
life  period.  It  is  in  a  state  of  incandescence,  and  astronomers 
estimate  that  it  will  take  many  millions  of  years  of  cooling  to 
form  a  crust  upon  its  surface,  then  the  cooling  will  progress 
much  slower  until  it  reached  its  life-sustaining  condition. 
Beautiful  venus  is  doubtless  just  emerging  into  its  life  period. 
It  has  water  and  an  atmosphere,  and  many  things  very  similar 
to  our  planet  earth. 

The  planet  called  earth  upon  which  we  live  was  the  first  to 
attain  to  a  life  period.  And  this  proposition  leads  us  into 
theology  again.  Here  God  commenced  the  stupendous  plan  of 
peopling  the  planets,  and  consequently  here  he  placed  that  new 
order  of  beings,  before  unknown  in  his  moral  universe,  spirit- 
ual, moral  beings  united  to  a  material  body  to  capacitate  them 
for  living  in  a  material  world.  And  in  this  new  order  of  beings 
is  found  that  connecting  link  between  the  material  and  spirit- 
ual world,  that  profound  mystery  of  mysteries,  the  union  of 
spirit  and  matter.  Man  is  the  desideratum  of  the  universe,  he 
fills  the  wide  gap  between  the  seen  and  the  unseen.  He  was 
placed  here  a  pure,  holy  and  happy  being,  perfectly  happy 
because  perfectly  holy.  He  was  placed  here  in  a  state  of  pro- 
bation and  had  the  federal  head  of  the  race  stood  their  proba- 
tion, each  individual  member  of  the  race  as  they  ended  their 
probation  would  have  been  translated  from  this  sphere  some- 
thing in  the  manner  that  Enoch  and  Elijah  were,  though  their 
translation  was  a  type  of  something  else  brought  out  farther  on 
in  these  papers.  The  scripture  never  types  anything  in  the 
past,  all  their  figures  and  types  find  their  antetypes  in  the 
future. 

But  the  evil  influence  that  had  crept  into  God's  moral  gov- 
ernment sometime  in  the  past,  approached  these  happy  beings, 
the  latest  of  God's  intelligent  creation,  and  accomplished  their 
fiill.      Now  there  has  been    much  speculation  about  the  fall 


82  THE    UNITED    STATES 


of  our  first  parents,  and  much  very  irreverent  speculation  even 
outspoken  censuring  of  God  for  creating  a  pair  that  he  knew 
would  fall  and  bring  so  much  sorrow  and  suffering  into  the 
world.  But  it  did  not  matter  with  God's  plans  whether  they 
stood  or  fell.  God  knew  what  he  would  do  in  either  case.  If 
they  had  endured  their  probation  Satan  would  have  applied 
his  temptations  to  each  individual  member  of  the  race  the 
same  as  he  does  now,  and  when  he  had  secured  ones  fall,  they 
would  have  fallen  without  remedy  for  there  would  have  been 
no  Savior  provided  in  that  case,  so  Satan  would  have  won  over 
as  many  souls  in  one  case  as  in  the  other,  there  would  have 
been  no  difference  in  that  respect.  But  as  for  me,  I  thank  God 
that  the  case  is  as  it  now  is,  for  now  if  I  fall  a  hundred  times 
in  a  day  I  can  ^  look  up  to  a  blessed  Savior  and  rise  again. 
That  this  was  the  first  planet  God  peopled  with  this  new  order 
of  beings  stands  to  reason.  The  Devil  was  already  in  the  bat- 
tle field  and  would  be  sure  to  assault  the  first  created, 
knowing  that  that  whole  order  of  beings  were  secured  if  he 
secured  the  representative  head.  The  vain  talk  of  some  peo- 
ple about  the  Savior  dying  for  other  worlds  and  people,  as 
though  the  Devil  waited  until  God  had  peopled  a  great  num- 
ber of  the  planets  and  then  started  on  a  very  successful  tour, 
kicking  over  what  the  Lord  had  done,  and  reaching  this 
planet  when  there  was  but  two  on  it  and  found  a  very  easy 
conquest,  and, — according  to  their  theory — the  blessed  Savior 
has  been  going  from  world  to  world,  for  perhaps  millions  of 
years,  passing  through  tl^e  awful  suffering  and  death  for  fallen 
beings,  following  up  the  trail  of  the  old  Serpent.  This  seems 
too  silly,  yea,  too  God  dishonoring  to  need  refutation.   ^. 

Nay^'fallen  Lucifer  dealt  his  severest  blow  against  God's 
moral  government  in  the  earthly  Paradise.  We  cannot  think 
that  the  Devil  ever  hoped  to  overreach  infinite  wisdom,  or  over- 
throw God's  plans,  he  knew  that  was  impossible  for  any  being 


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to  do,  but  he  was  instigated  then,  as  now,  by  his  totally  de- 
praved heart  to  do  all  the  evil  he  can  to  God's  creatures  and  to 
God's  moral  government,  but  God  has  so  overruled  it,  and 
made  the  wrath  of  devils,  as  well  as  "the  wrath  of  men  to  praise 
him,"  that  all  that  hell  has  done  against  him  shall  only  help 
him  to  consummate  his  plans  and  secure  his  government  on  a 
firmer  foundation. 

God  says  he  will  get  this  evil  out  of  His  moral  government 
and  confine  it  to  its  own  place,  where  "  it  shall  not  hurt  nor 
destroy  in  all  His  holy  mountain"  (holy  government);  moun- 
tain in  the  prophecies  means  government.  And  he  will  yet 
accomplish  his  purposes  with  the  human  race  and  the  material 
worlds  of  his  universe.  He  will  yet  people  the  planets  and 
people  them,  too,  with  loyal  subjects,  holy,  happy  beings,  as  he 
intended  at  the  first.  He  will  not  have  any  more  such  scenes 
enacted  as  has  been  enacted  on  this  planet.  It  used  to  be  a 
mystery  with  us  why  God  could  not  people  a  world  without  it 
resulting  in  such  a  ruinous  state  of  things  as  we  behold  here, 
and  why  he  should  suiBfer  a  race  of  intelligent  beings  to  exist 
one  day  where  there  is  so  much  suff'ering  and  sorrow  and  afflic- 
tion, so  much  injustice  and  oppression,  etc.,  if  His  plans  were 
circumscribed  to  the  narrow  limits  of  this  little  planet.  But 
God's  plans  are  as  broad  as  the  universe. 

We  used  to  think  that  the  Scriptures  used  extravagant  lan- 
guage. When  God  started  his  kingdom  in  the  world  in  the  form 
of  the  little  Hebrew  republic  and  church  in  the  land  of  Canaan, 
he  promised  to  increase  them  until  they  could  not  be  numbered. 
He  said  they  should  be  "as  the  stars  of  the  sky  in  multitude,  and 
as  the  sand  which  is  by  the  seashore,  innumerable."  The  jews 
understood  these  promises  to  apply  to  carnal  Israel,  the  Hebrew 
Church  and  State,  but  they  were  intended  for  Christian  Israel, 
when  the  spiritual  seed  of  Abraham  should  not  only  possess 
the  world,  but  worlds. 

There  never  was  a  time  when  carnal  Israel  could  not  \) 


84  THE    UNITED    STATES 


numbered,  and  when  Christian  Israel  shall  possess  the  whole 
world — which  is  unequivocally  promised — we  presume  the  cen- 
sus of  the  world  can  then  be  taken.  And  yet  there  will  be  a 
time  when  God's  Israel  will  be  beyond  the  computation  of 
finite  minds.  When  God  first  organized  His  people  in  the  wild- 
erness if  you  had  stood  upon  mount  Peor  with  Balaam  you 
would  have  seen  Israel  camped  in  the  valley  of  Moab,  3,000,000 
of  souls,  and  as  you  beheld  God's  presence  with  them  in  the 
majestic  pillar  of  cloud  upon  the  tabernacle,  you  might  have 
been  made  to  exclaim  with  Balaam  in  the  sublime  language,. 
"  How  goodly  are  thy  tents,  0  Jacob,  and  thy  tabernacles,  0 
^srael.  *  *  *  Tj^g  Lord,  his  God  is  with  him, 

and  the  shout  of  a  Ifing  is  among  them."  Again,  when  Christ 
sits  at  the  head  of  the  millennial  kingdom  and  rules  the  world  ^ 
if  you  could  be  raised  to  some  angel  tower,  and  like  Jesus  on 
the  Mount  of  Temptation,  behold  all  the  kingdoms  of  the  world, 
you  would  behold  many  hundred  millions;  but  when  the  "de- 
sire of  all  nations  "  has  come  and  brought  with  him  the  per- 
fection of  God's  kingdom  on  earth,  and  God's  people  like  the 
pure  angelic  spirits  shdll  have  the  privilege  of  God's  universe, 
chen  look  at  the  lights  that  adorn  the  hill  of  heaven  at  night, 
and  behold  Israel's  camp-fires. 

Perhaps  before  we  close  we  should  say  something  about  the 
docjtrine  of  the  destructionists.  Those  who  think  they  see  it 
taught  in  revelation  that  our  planet  is  to  be  annihilated,  and 
talk  very  eloquently  about  the  "wreck  of  matter  and  the  crash 
of  worlds."  But  perhaps  I  can't  answer  this  strange  doctrine 
more  effectually  in  the  same  space  than  'to  quote  from  Dr. 
Baldwin.  He  says,  in  commenting  on  the  following  Scripture, 
as  follows:  "  The  earth  and  heaven  fled  away;  and  I  saw  a 
new  heaven  and  a  new  earth,  for  the  first  heaven  and  the  first 
earth  were  passed  away,  and  there  was  no  more  sea."  This  is 
literal,  because  the  term  sea,  in  the  connection  in  which  it 
stands,  cannot  be  made  to  receive  a  symbolic  sense.     This  was 


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the  long  promised  regeneration  of  tlie  globe.  Some  severe 
destructionists  have  been  advocates  of  the  total  annihilation 
of  the  globe,  from  a  strange  misconception  of  the  meaning  of 
this,  and  other  passages  of  Scripture;  but  no  theory  can  be 
more  destitute  of  truth  and  good  sense.  The  truth  is,  the 
destruction  of  the  present  heaven  and  earth  is  necessary  to 
accomplish  the  promise  of  the  full  glory  of  God.  by  prepar- 
ing the  globe  for  the  erection  of  the  throne  of  David  and  of 
God  upon  it  forever.  We  will  briefly  meet  the  theory  on  its 
merits.  It  is  affirmed  that  the  heaven  and  earth  that  are  to  be 
destroyed,  signify  the  globe      This  we  deny  most  positively. 

1.  The  term  earth  has  at  least  twelve  significations,  and 
the  term  world  has  twenty- two  Now,  it  is  not  by  any  means 
necessary  to  give  the  signification  of  globe,  to  the  term  earth; 
whenever  it  is  used,  and  especially  when  the  context  does 
not  require  it. 

2.  The  term  heaven  and  earth  is  used  by  Moses,  and  most 
certainly  do  not  signify  the  globe;  for  he  expressly  defines 
them  to  signify  only  parts  of  the  mundane  system.  Thus, 
he  says,  "God  called  the  dry  land  earth,  and  God  called  the 
firmament  (or  atmosphere)  heaven,"  "and  the  gathering  together 
of  water  called  the  seas."  Here  is  as  clear  a  definition  of 
these  terms,  by  inspiration  itself,  as  could  be  desired.  Now, 
as  it  is  illogical  and  falsifying  to  give  the  terms  of  an  author 
a  different  sense  from  that  which  he  has  expressly  given  them 
so  it  is  falsifying  God's  word  to  insist  that  he  means  the 
destruction  of  the  globe,  when  he  speaks  of  the  destruction 
of  heaven  and  earth,  and  sea,  which  he  had  defined  to  be  but 
exterior  parts  of  the  globe 

3  St.  Peter,  who  gives  a  description  of  the  heavens  and 
earth,  literally  by  fire,  teaches  plainly  that  he  does  not  mean 
a  destruction  of  the  globe,  but  only  a  renewal  of  it  by  fire;  and 
Moses  in  his  description  of  the  destruction  of  the  earth  by  the 
deluge,  concurs  with  our  views.  Thus,  he  says,  "I  will  destroy 


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them  with  the  earth;"  "a  flood  to  destroy  the  earth."  Peter 
says;  "  By  the  word  of  God,  the  heavens  were  of  old,  and  the 
earth  standing  out  of  the  water,  and  in  the  water,  whereby  the 
world  that  then  was,  being  overflowed  with  water,  perished; 
but  the  heavens  and  earth  which  are  now,  by  the  same  word, 
:  re  kept  in  store,  reserved  unto  fire  against  the  day  of  judg- 
ment." Nothing  can  be  plainer  than  that  the  old  heavens  and 
earth  before  the  flood,  perished,  and  that  the  globe  did  not; 
and  nothing  can  be  plainer  than,  "that  the  heavens  and  earth 
which  are  now,"  are  as  much  different  from  the  globe  as  were 
the  heavens  and  earth  before  the  flood.  It  is  as  clear  as  light, 
that  the  heavens  and  earth  destroyed  by  water  have  the  same 
signification  as  the  term  heaven  and  earth,  which  are  to  be 
'^estroyed  by  fire.  So  that  the  destruction  announced  by  Peter 
has  no  sort  of  reference  to  a  destruction  of  the  globe,  but  only 
to  its  external  organization.  Besides,  he  says,  "according  to 
his  promise,  we  look  for  new  heavens  and  a  new  earth." 

Now,  the  only  special  promise  upon  this  subject,  was  given 
by  Isaiah,  and  he  locates  them  upon  the  present  globe.  It 
therefore  follows,  that  when  Christ  said,  "the  heaven  and  earth 
shall  pass  away,"  he  referred  to  the  present  heaven  and  earth, 
erected  upon  the  globe,  and  not  the  globe  itself. 

4.  "The  reason  for  the  passing  away  of  the  heaven  and 
earth.  There  is  good  sense  in  every  act  of  God,  and  hence 
there  is  a  good  common  sense  reason  for  the  destruction  of  the 
present  heaven  and  earth,  and  that  reason  is  as  obvious  as  it  is 
sensible;  it  is  to  restore  the  world  to  its  pristine  glory.  The 
war  which  God  declared  in  the  beginning,  was  for  the  conquest 
of  the  world;  to  restore  man  upon  earth  to  subjection  to  his 
government.  Now,  the  curse  upon  the  ground  was  a  great  act  of 
war,  to  aid  in  the  subjugation  of  the  race;  and  the  curse  on  the 
earth  was  a  double  one;  the  first  at  the  Fall  and  the  second  by 
the  Flood.  After  the  conquest  of  man,  this  curse  would, 
accordinf?  to  the  promise  at  the  beginning,  be  removed;  and 


IN    THE    RESTORATION.  87 


this  removal  would  require  as  great  a  change  in  the  heaven  ari'l 
earth,  at  such  renewal,  as  took  place  when  they  were  change  I 
at  the  Fall  and  the  Flood;  that  is,  to  remove  the  curse,  the 
heaven  and  earth  would  need  to  be  removed  or  changed.  Th  3 
promise  of  the  final  removal  of  the  curse,  on  all  things,  was 
made  at  the  first,  and  repeated  in  all  subsequent  ages.  The 
removal  of  the  curse  of  death  implies  a  resurrection;  and  the 
removal  of  the  curse  on  the  heavens  and  earth,  implies  their 
removal,  and  the  erection  of  a  heaven  and  earth  without  mpei- 
fection,  and  not  the  annihilation  of  the  globe,  which  would  ha 
the  severest  punishment  ever  inflicted  on  it. 
i  5.  The  annihilation  of  the  globe  implies  that  God  enter- 
tains spite  against  inanimate  matter,  which  is  most  absurd  to 
suppose. 

6.  God  has  engaged  in  war  for  six  thousand  years,  to  estab- 
lish his  kingdom  on  the  globe.  Now,  what  good  sense  is  there 
in  fighting  for  ages,  through  the  most  awful  scenes  of  affliction, 
to  regain  a  revolted  province  on  purpose  to  annihilate  it  as 
soon  as  it  is  possessed?  Tell  us,  ye  wise!  Say,  is  there  reason 
fn  the  baseless  assumption  you  make?  God  swore  to  Moses 
that  the  whole  earth  should  be  full  of  his  glory;  and  the  pro- 
phets say  that  it  shall  then  endure  forever.  L'oes  this  look 
like  annihilation  of  the  globe?  Does  it  not  look  like  its  regen- 
er.tion  at  the  final  ''restitution  of  all  things?" 

7,  John  says,  that  after  the  old  heaven  and  earth  were  gone, 
that  the  New  Jerusalem  descended  to  the  new  earth,  and  to 
the  region  where  the  curse  had  prevailed.  The  words,  "  there 
shall  be  no  more  death,  neither  shall  there  be  any  more  pain; 
for  the  former  things  are  passed  away,"  are  applicable  to  a 
world  where  these  things  had  prevailed,  and  from  which  they 
were  banished,  and  no*  to  a  world  where  they  had  never  been 
known.  "  Behold,  I  ■  akj  all  things  new,"  can  not  refer  to  the 
third  heaven,  but  oniy  to  a  world  where  every  thing  needed 
reorganization.     "  There  shall  be  no  more  curse,"  applies  only 


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to  a  world  where  the  curse  had  prevailed.  But,  again:  All 
these  things  were  prophecies,  to  be  fulfilled  after  the  days  of 
John,  and  they  must  refer  to  this  globe,  and  not  to  the  third 
heaven,  which  existed  before  John's  day.  Besides  this,  the 
New  Jerusalem  came  down  from  God,  out  of  heaven,  to  men, 
and  men  did  not  go  up  to  it;  which  shows,  again,  that  this 
globe  was  to  be  the  throne  of  God  and  the  Lamb.  Daniel,  and 
Isaiah,  and  all  the  prophets,  make  the  world  redeemed  to  abide 
forever;  and  after  the  millennium  is  ended,  and  the  judgment 
is  passed,  John  shows  the  state  of  the  world  in  the  full  blaze 
of  celestial  glory.  Who  ever  heard  of  Christ's  returning  from 
the  earth  after  his  second  advent  to  it?  And  who  has  not  read  ^ 
that  the  tabernacle  of  God  shall  be  with  men  after  the  New 
Jerusalem  descends,  and  that  they  shall  reign  with  God  and 
the  Lamb  forever  and  ever  in  the  New  Jerusalem,  and  in  the 
heavens  and  earth,  from  which  the  curse  had  been  removed? 
The  truth  is,  the  regenerated  globe  is  to  be  the  battle  monu- 
ment of  eternity;  the  seat  of  government  of  Jesus,  head  over 
all  things;  the  holy  of  holies  of  the  universe.  As  the  believers 
shall  come  from  the  dust,  where  the  curse  had  laid  them,  and 
shall  wear  the  image  of  Jesus,  and  shall  be  adorned  with  all 
the  glory  which  infinite  skill  can  compass,  or  Omnipotence 
create;  so  also  shall  their  r^Bidence,  freed  from  the  curse,  ap- 
pear in  all  the  splendor  commensurate  with  its  citizens  and 
king.  As  the  throne  of  the  Son  of  Mary  will  shine  with  all 
the  splendors  of  Deity;  as  it  will  be  the  supreme  expression  of 
all  the  concentrated  excellence  with  which  matter  can  be 
clothed  by  Jehovah's  limitless  resources  and  power,  so  this 
poor  blood-stained  globe  will  shine,  wrapped  in  the  uncreated 
blaze  of  God's  robe  of  royalty;  so  it  will  be  filled  with  eternal 
music  and  delight;  so  it  will  be  holy,  holy,  holy  to  the  Lord 
God  of  hosts;  so  it  will  be  an  eternal  honor  to  the  Captain  of 
our  salvation.  When  the  serpent's  head  is  bruised,  when  the 
curse  shall  fly  from  earth  and  hover  forever  over  the  lost,  in 


IN   THE    RESTORATION.  89 

the  night  of  their  woe,  may  you  and  I,  dear  reader,  have  a 
shelter  beneath  the  jasper  skies  and  trees  of  life,  beside  the 
living  streams  of  joy.  Then  from  our  central  home,  upon  Je- 
hovah's wing,  0  be  it  ours  to  visit  every  home  of  angels,  and 
know  in  person  every  creature  of  his  love,  in  every  world  of 
his  own  universe,  and  pass  eternity  delightfully!  This  regen- 
eration of  the  globe  completes  the  victory  foretold  to  the  ser- 
pent; it  is  the  "kingdom  come  on  earth,  as  it  is  in  heaven." 

In  those  times  what  shall  limit  the  privileges  of  God's  peo- 
ple? Shall  they  not  take  the  swift  flying  chariots  of  Jehovah, 
that  have  brought  angelic  spirits  and  redeemed  souls  (Moses 
and  Elijah,  and  others)  to  our  world  and  carried  them  away 
again.  Shall  they  not,  I  ask,  be  privileged  those  lightning 
trains,  and  visit  worlds  basking  in  all  the  loveliness  that  God's 
perfection  of  beauty  can  bestow.  It  is  not  too  wild  a  flight  of 
imagination  to  say  you  will  call  some  day  at  those  beautiful 
worlds  and  enquire, 

"  Stopped  here  the  good  Enoch  on  his  way, 
Called  here  Elijah  in  his  flaming  car." 

It  is  net  saying  too  much  to  say  you  will  some  time  walk  the 
fl  )wery  fields  and  beautiful  groves  of  lovely  Venus;  quafl"  the 
limpid  waters  of  her  youth-giving  fountains,  or  stand  beneath 
Siturn's  majestic  rings  and  behold  the  grandeur  of  her  evening 
s'-cies,  with  her  eight  moons  and  luminary  belts. 

It  may  seem  chimerical  to  some  of  the  scientists  of  our  day  1  o 
talk  about  traveling  away  from  our  planet,  but  two  have  trav- 
eled the  route  before  us,  Enooh  and  Elijah,  and  their  transla- 
tion is  the  pledge,  proof,  and  pattern  of  ours.  About  1,900 
years  ago  they  paid  us  a  visit,  and  talked  awhile  with  Jesus  on 
the  Mount  of  Transfiguration;  spoke  of  his  decease  which  he 
should  accomplish  at  Jerusalem,  finished  their  mission  and  re- 
turned to  their  bright  home.  They  will  doubtless  never  visi  t 
us  again  until  Christ  comes  in  his  kingdom.  Poor  old  Elisha 
saw  Elijah  when  he  jumped  aboard  of  the  fiery  train  and  rode 


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away,  and  with  outstretched  arms  and  anxious  heart  he  cried 
after  him,  but  alas,  his  time  had  not  then  come  for  the  glori- 
ous flight. 

Extravagant  language,  do  you  say?  Imagination  can  not 
plume  her  wing  for  too  high  a  flight  or  too  broad  a  sweep  when 
God's  plans  and  promises  are  her  pursuit. 

God  grant,  my  dear  reader,  that  we  may  be  >  counted 
among  God's  worthy  people  who  sh^ll  one  day  drop  isorrow, 
care,  death  and  age,  and  in  perennial  youth  soar  to  the  bright 
worlds  aboye  and  around  us.' 

Then  go,  Christian,  go!  and  with  the  angels 
*'  Wing  thy  flight  from  star  to  star," 
"  From  world  , to  luminous  world  as  far" 
Taste  **  all  the  pleasures  of  all  the  spheres," 
Enjoy  "  them  through  endless  years;" 
And  then  thy  heaven  has  Just  begun. 


lOAN  DEPT. 


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